MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arlort | 2025-09-11 13:29:35+00:00
> I don't see how it is less clearly defined than any other human right

Human rights are famously almost impossible to clearly define because they're an entirely abstract category relying very much on cultural consensus for their practical definition

> No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his honour and reputation. > Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

> Is this definition problematic?

Yes, very much so. By qualifying that the interference must not be unlawful it essentially makes any interference by law (like what was proposed here in the first place) fine

> privacy, family, home or correspondence

This is very restrictive, for instance there's nothing in it about online storage or your laptop / phone since they're neither your home, family or correspondence

> unlawful attacks on his honour and reputation

This manages to be so unclear that if applied strictly it'd ban any criticism of a politician or anyone else as long as you can construe it as "attacking their reputation"
by abustamam | 2025-09-11 13:29:56+00:00
Exactly! This is what I always say when people claim "AI won't replace jobs because jobs still need expertise !" While the cause statement is absolutely true, the people with the power/money don't believe it to be true (or, in some cases, don't care if it's true) and can get a quick win for the shareholders.

I wonder if there's gonna be a big reckoning of these "AI-first" companies suddenly people to fix their shitty vibe coded stuff. Ooh, new job title: AI fixer, minimum salary, $1m/yr, with RSU.
by throw0101d | 2025-09-11 13:30:42+00:00
> That's not to say that in Europe it's bad service per se, and in certain ways I actually prefer it in Europe where the server isn't constantly "checking in" on me while I'm trying to have dinner.

I want them to check in to ensure that the order was (a) correct, and (b) properly cooked.

There may be instances in which you drop some cutlery or need an extra napkin, and a quick check-in could be useful. You could also flag them down with a raised hand or eye contact. A busser could achieve the same results too (also refilling water glasses).
by tialaramex | 2025-09-11 13:31:24+00:00
A thing that's maybe not obvious to Americans, and maybe even Brits is that "Public Service Broadcaster" is a category based on why it was OK for this to broadcast on the radio frequency, rather than somehow related to how it's funded.

So, NBC etc. in the US are Public Service Broadcasters, whereas a local not-for-profit that has laid their own coax in your city is not a PSB.

In the UK ITV is a PSB, as well as the BBC (which you probably think of) and Channel 4 (which is owned by the state) but if your local school media team uploads local affairs videos to Youtube that's not a PSB.

The idea is there's finite radio bandwidth, the government has decided it gets to decide who uses that bandwidth and how, and so a PSB is an entity which got licensed to use some of that finite space to do something approved. Government policies might require or forbid certain programming, for example maybe you can't advertise cigarettes or you can't swear, but you must have a news show every weekday evening.

The EBU exists because of this same bandwidth issue. Radio doesn't care about politics, so even if adjacent country A and country B hate each other and have closed their borders, the radio waves from A propagate to B and vice versa. So radio "regions" exist which try to duck the politics as much as possible to focus on practicalities. That they don't fully duck politics is how we end up with Israel in Europe but not its immediate neighbours...
Show HN: Send SMS from your own Android phone via API
by nikola470 | 2025-09-11 13:31:30+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small developer tool called *SimGate*.

Problem: most SMS APIs (Twilio, etc.) charge per-SMS. For small projects, prototypes, or local businesses, this adds up quickly.

What I made: - An Android app that connects your phone to the cloud via WebSocket. - A simple REST API where you send JSON (`deviceId`, `phoneNumber`, `message`). - Your phone sends the SMS using its own SIM plan — no extra per-SMS fees.

Use cases: OTP codes, alerts, internal tools, or any project where you just need reliable SMS without provider costs.

Stack: Node/Express + Websockets (backend).

Demo & docs: https://simgate.app

This is my first SaaS launch. I’d love feedback: - Would you use this for side projects or small businesses? - Any concerns about reliability/security with this model?

Thanks!
by steveBK123 | 2025-09-11 13:31:30+00:00
Absolutely, and you see this in non-Mag7/non-tech industries where CEOs are all announcing a parade of "head of AI" hires. Will it end up being a permanent role like CISO, or is this just faddish follow-along? I know some of the guys being hired into these roles and, lol.. let's just say they are not experts.

My spouse works at a large (50k-100k) org in a program management role where she is getting a lot of pressure to organize various AI evangelism efforts aimed at developers. Workshops, bake offs, demo days, etc.

I mean sounds neat, but is this being done because it's useful or because someone up high needs to justify their AI budget spend with AI usage metrics?

Do we believe that ICs are actually so stupid/stubborn they need to be mandated, coaxed, coached, bullied and bribed to use something that makes their jobs easier?

Doesn't most of the best tech end up being bottoms-up?

Most of us who were around 15+ years ago recall a lot of BigCorp had to be dragged unwillingly into mobile by internal useres/devs who got their first iPhone and saw the light. A lot of stuff starts as small team internal skunk works / unofficial projects working around productivity drains. I am highly suspicious that the C-suite knows what people 10 levels down actually need for productivity enhancement.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-11 13:32:00+00:00
It's not a technical problem. Chat Control wasn't about breaking encryption, it would bypass encryption with client-side scanning. It targets the apathetic 99% of the population who won't have the energy or knowledge to do anything about it.

It's also not a technical problem because technical solutions (like GPG) already exist. The problem is political (stopping these authoritarian laws) or should that fail, social (convincing people to inconvenience themselves with alternative communication apps that aren't available on app stores)
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-09-11 13:32:09+00:00
Something like Tailwind Catalyst UI kit [1]?

I'll be definitely be lining up to get one that has more variety.

Currently I'm trying out the recently released AI Elements [2] for its UI components tailored for AI-related stuff and pretty convenient for prototyping.

[1]: https://catalyst.tailwindui.com/docs

[2]: https://ai-sdk.dev/elements/overview
by smt88 | 2025-09-11 13:32:27+00:00
The link I gave was just direct quotes with attribution. The publication's bias was just in choosing to write that article at all.

Also please skip the "there is much to question" nonsense. The conspiracy theorists had dozens of days in court and ended up with losses, fines, dismissal, and jail time because they couldn't provide proof.

It would also be very strange for people to partially steal an election, allowing their opponents to take statewide offices in states like Georgia where the vote split between parties.
by const_cast | 2025-09-11 13:32:48+00:00
People support lots of ideas. I support the idea of everyone getting 1 billion dollars.

Can we do that ethically? No. Of course not. The implementation must necessarily require death and theft.

Age verification is a similar problem. I support the idea of minors not accessing bad data. Okay, cool.

Is there an ethical way to implement that? No, of course not. It would require extreme surveillance and said surveillance would necessarily be used for evil.

I mean, imagine this. New law: children can never smoke law. Great! 100% support! Now you must upload a video of you smoking every time you smoke so the government knows a child isn't smoking. Uh... Not great, very bad.

Its all about how you ask the question: "do you support children never smoking" => 100% support. "Do you support requiring video uploads to the government of every time you smoke" => 0% support.

We're actually asking the same question, it's just a matter of how favorably we show the issue.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-11 13:32:49+00:00
Even a regular enterprise dev in a tier 2 city makes $135K - $150K and that puts them in the top quintile of earners in the US.

https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/

As I said in another comment though, I’m 51 with 30 years of professional experience, 10 years before that as a hobbyist, a reputation, a network, a stint at BigTech, etc.

I tell anyone who wants to get into software development at even 30 as a junior that they would be better off in product management, sales, customer facing solution architecture, etc.

How to do that from ground zero? I have no idea.
by tanepiper | 2025-09-11 13:33:19+00:00
In some way it's similar to some of the provisions in the Digital Markets Act in the EU - when it comes to user's wanting to share data, organisations have to provide it to them for free; but if a company wants access to the data for their customers directly then there can be a commercial agreement and fee involved.

Think sharing your electricity usage with a company selling power solutions at home, they could get agreements to access this data on behalf of people using essentially peer-to-peer API services.
by cman1444 | 2025-09-11 13:33:25+00:00
This may be true for Kirk specifically, but in general I don't think it's an exaggeration at all to say there are threats to "our" (meaning all Americans) democracy when there's frequent attempts to subvert and even overthrow election results.

See: January 6th insurrection, trump's call to the GA secretary of state, increased gerrymandering, and attempts to throw out certain ballots.

Are these not threats to democracy?
by Jenny249 | 2025-09-11 13:34:16+00:00
I built Nano Banana (nanobanana.cool), a next-gen web app for image generation and editing using AI from Google.

Upload an image (JPG/PNG, up to 10 MB; or use up to 9 reference images)

Edit with natural language prompts (change lighting/clothing/background, etc.)

Maintain perfect character/object consistency even through complex edits

Merge multiple images into one scene; preserve background, depth, lighting

Polished quality without the hassle of manual masking or Photoshop workflows

Free to try. Feedback, ideas, and early adopters welcome!
Ask HN: Interrupt Processing at the Microoperations Level?
by shivajikobardan | 2025-09-11 13:34:29+00:00
Microoperations for interrupt cycle.

At the completion of the execute cycle, a test is made to determine whether any enabled interrupts have occurred. If so, the interrupt cycle occurs. The nature of this cycle varies greatly from one machine to another. t1: MBR<-(PC) t2: MAR<-Save_Address PC<-Routine_Address t3: Memory<-(MBR)

https://imgur.com/a/kvBiWGD

Interrupt Processing works like as shown in the above image.

What needs to be happening is that:

Just save the value of PC somewhere and load PC with Interrupt_Service_Routine address.

However, the book says different(as presented in above microoperations). Please explain
by password54321 | 2025-09-11 13:34:37+00:00
What part of trying to corner you using the reaction of the audience the moment you argue against objective morality the Socratic method? Obviously no one wants to appear as a Nazi sympathiser especially in public when that is not the point they are trying to make.

If he fails to corner you, then comes the escape hatch where he brings up God and how God defines morality. Now the debate is over because you either believe in God or you don't.

This is a script that turns the whole thing into a rigged game not a method for arguing.
by malavika_manoj | 2025-09-11 13:35:03+00:00
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by datadrivenangel | 2025-09-11 13:35:11+00:00
I did this early in my career as a product owner with an offshore team in India... Write feedback/specs, send them over at end of day US time. Have a fresh build ready for review by start of business.

Worked amazingly when it worked. Really stretched things out when the devs misunderstood us or got confused by our lack of clarity and we had to find time for a call... Also eventually there got to be some gnarly technical debt and things really slowed down.
by piltdownman | 2025-09-11 13:35:15+00:00
Re: Emily Hand - This was immediately clarified as Eli Cohen taking offense at common phraseology to make anti-semitic strawmen as per usual.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clwpz157v1go

The rest is just Zionist alternate-reality ranting, but I'll sign-off by pointing out that our Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence from 2011 to 2014 is Jewish and worked in Kibbutz' in Israel during his teens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shatter

Chaim Herzog, sixth president of Israel from 1983 to 1993, was born in Belfast and educated in Dublin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Herzog

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, his father and a fluent Irish speaker, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, 1921 to 1936. From 1936 until his death in 1959, he was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine, and subsequently Israel after its creation in 1948.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_HaLevi_Herzog

And finally the protagonist of James Joyce's Ulysses - Leopold Bloom - is Jewish, in what is effectively our national narrative.
by tlogan | 2025-09-11 13:35:42+00:00
If you look at the numbers, the key driver is rents (technically listed as "shelter").

Shelter has a large weight in the CPI basket, and its 12-month increase was 3.6% (comparing to 2.9%)

Rents in San Francisco (and LA) are skyrocketing. And that cannot be easily explained.

Not sure what’s causing this. What do you think?
by 1oooqooq | 2025-09-11 13:36:08+00:00
you have to constantly advertise your location to get cell service (by design, didn't have to be so)

stores scan your phone radio and also aggregate this data to map your store visit.

this was all done with credit cards in the 50s and then outlawed, hence: reward programs.

so, can't wait for Verizon to offer a cell coverage reward program that is nothing but a waiver to your data, just like reward programs from credit cards of yore.
by shoo | 2025-09-11 13:36:24+00:00
I've heard a few economists interviewed about the estimated impact of tariffs, an argument is that tariffs should lead to higher prices for US consumers, but as a one-time price increase, not a sustained level of price inflation.

That said, it's curious that this CPI news release highlighted "shelter" as a driver:

> The index for shelter rose 0.4 percent in August and was the largest factor in the all items monthly increase.

The US may import a lot of things... but probably not shelter. Wonder how much of rent inflation is driven by fixed rate mortgages from the zirp era needing to be refinanced at today's higher mortgage rates.
by blazarquasar | 2025-09-11 13:36:25+00:00
They could have just left out Article 8. Its a “no interference by a public authority unless it want’s to.” “Well-being of the country”, “protection of health or morals” are terms that make this statute irrelevant and dependent on the current mood of the EU.

Privacy needs to be an absolute right. Any invasion of privacy of any individual is a violation of their rights and needs to be treated as such with actual repercussions following misconduct.
by lingolango | 2025-09-11 13:36:43+00:00
Linux is ~1.5GB of source text and the output is typically a binary less than 100MB. That should take a few hundred milliseconds to read in from an SSD or be basically instant from RAM cache, and then a few hundred ms to write out the binary.

So why does it take minutes to compile?

Compilation is entirely compute bound, the inputs and outputs are minuscule data sizes, in the order of megabytes for typical projects - maybe gigabytes for multi million line projects, but that is still only a second or two from an SSD.
by oliwarner | 2025-09-11 13:37:07+00:00
Weren't there bizarre voting irregularities? A massive discrepancy between judge votes and public votes, as well as far fewer plays on Spotify ahead of voting. Belgium counted +10% votes with -50% viewers (they didn't qualify). Spain, The Netherlands and Ireland also registering similar concerns.

The insinuation being clear that Jewish diaspora were encouraged to vote heavily.

I'm not defending Ireland's performance but Israel's was objectively mediocre too. Eurovision voting is historically biased but it was weird last year.
by piltdownman | 2025-09-11 13:37:08+00:00
Ireland won the real Eurovision Song Contest in 1992, 1993 and 1994, and had the costly obligation of hosting it in 1993, 1994 and 1995. We have so little interest in winning it, that the single most famous comedy show in Irish history - our Fawlty Towers equivalent - apes our desire to lose the competition to relieve ourselves of the financial burden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_for_Europe_(Father_Ted)
by sillyfluke | 2025-09-11 13:37:16+00:00
What ridiculously self-serving drivel. By that logic there is hardly any place in Europe you should be visiting since most at one time or another were led by fascistic governments. Spain fought a civil war to get rid of that garbage. Your opinion is probably not shared by many Jews who recently obtained Spanish citizenship as descendents of those who fled the country in the past.

Wait till you find out about the American stance to Jewish refugees during World War 2.
by pasc1878 | 2025-09-11 13:37:33+00:00
Yes and they behave differently which is what I expect - they are different tools and they should behave consistently on a platform.

They should be tuned for the platform.

I can't use gestures on a PC or Mac but I can on a iPad or Android. Similarly I can control a PC or mac from a proper keybord and mouse but the usual use for iPad/Android is via a single finger.
by drdec | 2025-09-11 13:37:41+00:00
> Of course this means that the next administration will need to start with tax increases just to get to neutral, but maybe that is a feature?

Oh no.

What you have missed is the incredible end run around the spirit of the reconciliation process that the Republicans did this time around.

So, the did these tricks with the tax in Trump's first term, with tax breaks set to sunset in order to have a revenue-neutral effect over the required ten years.

This time around they needed to extend those breaks, right? So they must had to cut spending or raise other taxes in order to do that and have a revenue-neutral effect, right?

Ha ha, no! They convinced the CBO that the baseline for the reconciliation process this time should be whatever was in effect for the last few years. So those breaks are already baked in and don't need to be counterbalanced. It's a two-step, long-term process for making things permanent through the reconciliation process that otherwise one could not.
by jennyholzer | 2025-09-11 13:37:43+00:00
I've never heard of the "steelman" thought experiment

I'm familiar with the "strawman" concept that it derives from, although in my experience this is typically presented as a logical fallacy.

What is the purpose of "steelmanning" a political actor's political perspectives?

What is this supposed to achieve?

Where did you and the people responding to this comment hear about this concept? Are there articles out there making the case for "steelmanning"?
by tdeck | 2025-09-11 13:37:56+00:00
Supporting Israel is a great way to get organizations like the ADL off your back when you're being antisemitic. Look at Elon Musk - he was having trouble and being sued because of all the Nazis he encouraged on Twitter, but he took a PR trip to Israel and put on some dog tags. Now he can throw out a Sieg Heil in public and the ADL says it's OK because their only real priority these days is PR for Israel.
by hu3 | 2025-09-11 13:38:08+00:00
PHP is getting Mago (written in Rust).

Repo: https://github.com/carthage-software/mago

Announcement 9 months ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1h9zh83/announcing_mag...

For now its main features are 3: formatting, linting and fixing lint issues.

I hope they add package management to do what composer does.
by HelloMcFly | 2025-09-11 13:38:32+00:00
What's the full quote? I can't find it. But I'm familiar with the larger talking point coming out of nationalistic right-wing Christianity around "empathy is a sin". In that movement the definition of "empathy" is unchanged, the argument is instead advanced that it is spiritually dangerous because it elevates human experience above "God's truth". This is not a widely-held belief, and is closer associated with nationalistic Christianity vs. broader American Christianity.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-11 13:38:53+00:00
That's a good estimate for an individual visit as of today but is precisely the kind of thing that which has resulted in "normal" tips going from +.1 to +.15 to +.2 as the years go on (erring too low has more friction than erring too high, and if something else raises the amount traditionally tipped somewhere then "normal" for this will tend to adjust upwards in a large group).