MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hearsathought | 2025-09-24 17:11:45+00:00
> is the the response desired by the authoritarian Chinese government who has carefully engineered the situation in the first place.

But they are an "authoritarian" government so they don't really care what their citizens believe. Right? Doesn't your logic apply more to "democratic" and "free" countries. No?

> The purpose of constantly publishing obvious lies is not for people to believe them (though some always will), it's to devalue the idea of truth in general.

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day." -- Thomas Jefferson

Are you saying the US was "authoritarian" from the very beginning?

> As long as the economy's good, people just don't care about anything that doesn't harm them directly.

Isn't this true for every government? "Democratic", "authoritarian", "monarch", "anarchic", etc?
by sdesol | 2025-09-24 17:11:50+00:00
Honestly Gemini Flash Lite and models on Cerebras are extremely fast. I know what you are saying. If the goal is to get a lot of results where they may or may not be relevant, then yes, it is an order of a magnitude slower.

If you take into consideration the post analysis process, which is what inference is trying to solve, is it an order of a magnitude slower?
by raphman | 2025-09-24 17:12:12+00:00
According to [1], the downloaded video is AES-encrypted. Decryption key is stored locally in an IndexDB. I tried building a Python script using plyvel [2], a Python module for reading IndexDB/LevelDB, some time ago but IIRC, it had trouble reading the Chrome DB. Maybe Google's dfindexeddb [3] works. I didn't try it, however.

[1] https://github.com/Marsel-marsel/youtube-premium-video-downl...

[2] https://github.com/wbolster/plyvel

[3] https://github.com/google/dfindexeddb
by Dig1t | 2025-09-24 17:12:13+00:00
You underestimate how much seeing a sitting president be deplatformed affected the voting public. It wasn’t just Musk, all this talk of “deplatforming” people on the right was an obviously clear erosion of free speech that pushed many moderates like myself rightward.

It wasn’t just banning Trump either, tbh one of the biggest ones was the banning of the Babylon Bee for a pretty tame joke. There’s a long list of other right-leaning accounts which were banned during that time as well.
by sneilan1 | 2025-09-24 17:12:20+00:00
True, if you are in a big company with lots of people, you won't benefit much from the improved throughput of agentic coding.

A greenfield startup however with agentic coding in it's DNA will be able to run loops around a big company with lots of human bottlenecks.

The question becomes, will greenfield startups, doing agentic coding from the ground up, replace big companies with these human bottlenecks like you describe?

What does a startup, built using agentic coding with proper engineering practices, look like when it becomes a big corporation & succeeds?
by WD-42 | 2025-09-24 17:12:20+00:00
I’ve been out of the geo loop for a while. I’m struggling to understand why I’d use this over postgis. There used to be the argument that installing extensions was painful, but now that docker exists pulling the postgis image is just as easy as normal Postgres. And RDS has supported it for a while.

What am I missing? The api even looks the same.
by hinkley | 2025-09-24 17:12:39+00:00
It took a while to emerge but a couple years into my F50 gig we ran into a situation where we had a bus number if 3 in a domain, we all knew that solution A sounds good on paper but is a shitshow in practice, but the rest of the team was still enamored of it and our reasoned explanations just weren’t being persuasive enough.

The popular vote was going to load us up with little emergencies that were going to slow several divisions down and we ended up talking to the bosses and ignoring the vote.

In trying to smooth this over, I realized that the problem is that the people who would be dealing with the consequences of a decision wanted solution C and everyone else wanted solution A. And I think it’s something worth remembering for future indecisions, that the people with skin in the game need to be able to veto a popular vote. If you don’t want the project to lose momentum.

Generally on a large project you will have a bunch of leads all dealing with different domains, and they will reach quorum on major architectural decisions, particularly cross cutting concerns and interfaces between Conway’s Law modularizations. The boss only needs to break ties when a consensus does not emerge. And I mean NEEDS. Second worst boss I ever had refused to break ties and we had an even number of leads, so it happened half a dozen times. We wasted hours every month venting to each other about what we hated about him and one of the regular attendees just about wanted to murder him for that, and have us help him hide the body.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-24 17:12:45+00:00
Would you be able to replicate this with the heavy equipment and movements needed to plug orphaned oil wells? In Texas alone, it's a TAM of ~$38B, and ~$150B for the entire US.

The Looming Disaster Under America's Biggest Oil Field [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45361022 - September 2025

Texas has thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells. Who is responsible for cleaning them up? - https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/08/texas-orphan-wells-e... - May 8th, 2025

The Rising Cost of the Oil Industry’s Slow Death - https://www.propublica.org/article/the-rising-cost-of-the-oi... - February 22nd, 2024

Well plugging SOP:

https://www.epa.gov/natural-gas-star-program/well-plugging

https://www.osha.gov/etools/oil-and-gas/abandoning-well
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-24 17:13:03+00:00
Indeed, having children should have tiny nickel and dime costs all throughout your life in a million different ways. It should be the norm that just trying to raise the next generation costs you time, energy, effort, and money just to do normal day to day things, and it should especially be harder for you because you dared to have children.

Wait, why is nobody having kids?
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-24 17:13:10+00:00
> Freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences.

Freedom of speech requires freedom from government consequences. I have freedom of speech still if you say "I don't like your speech"; I don't have it if the cops say "I'm arresting you for your speech".

> I would 100% fire someone for celebrating murder.

And you can. You can also skip their birthday party. But "I'm glad so-and-so is dead" largely can't be a reason to, say, lose your drivers' license, social security benefits, or government employment, because the First Amendment applies to government specifically.

Facebook, Google, the grocery store, etc. have never been subject to the First Amendment.

(People can, and do, get fired for espousing Charlie Kirk's beliefs, too. That's free speech/association for you.)
by bluGill | 2025-09-24 17:13:12+00:00
Only a new airplane. Most planes are designed for a lot of air and couldn't fly with as many people as can physically fit inside. Cargo airplanes carefully watch this factor. As a passenger I've been on airplanes that took off with empty seats even though there were people on standby wanting to get on because with the weather they couldn't fly a full plane.
by maxbond | 2025-09-24 17:13:23+00:00
Will you consider providing a feature to protect me from accidentally using my Zed account after the $5 is exhausted (or else a plan that only includes edit predictions)? I can't justify to myself continuing my subscription if there's a risk I will click the wrong button with identical text to the right button, and get charged an additional 10% for it. I get you need to be compensated for risk if you pay up front on my behalf, but I don't need you to do that.

I understand that there's nothing you could do to protect me if I make a prompt that ends up using >$5 of usage but after that I would like Zed to reject anything except my personal API keys.
by rck | 2025-09-24 17:13:41+00:00
Pope Pius XI wrote about _subsidiarity_ as a guiding social principle:

"Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do. For every social activity ought of its very nature to furnish help to the members of the body social, and never destroy and absorb them."

Tao is observing the consequences of a society that increasingly has abandoned subsidiarity as an operating principle. (I had hoped that crypto might be able to bring subsidiarity back, but so far the opposite has happened in practice.)
by mediaman | 2025-09-24 17:13:59+00:00
The reduction of volunteer organizations started long before COVID: "Bowling Alone" was written in 2000, and documents much of the same changes.

The trend has been resistant to any particular link to localized economic ups or downs. Characterizing the 2023-2025 era (at least in the US) as "a time of scarcity" is divorced from any sort of factual reality; there is no quantitative data to support this idea and it seems to mostly be based on social media vibes (hence the oft-commented "vibecession").

One could make a much stronger argument exactly to the opposite: wealthier societies tend to become more individualistic and separated, people choose to live on their own if possible, and in bigger places; large companies have such attractive economics and pay people so much more than small companies do that it is difficult for small organizations to compete for talent.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-24 17:14:30+00:00
This is part of the reason I don't fly so much anymore. In the last 10 flights I flew, only 2 arrived on time. For one flight I was delayed in D/FW for 72 hours. I haven't had a flight on United that wasn't canceled or rescheduled or I was bumped in about 10 years. And the behaviour of the airlines has been getting MUCH worse over time. The Alaska flight from DFW to SEA that was delayed 72 hours... They originally weren't going to refund me for canceling it. I had to get a lawyer involved. I should not have to get a lawyer and a local TV news crew involved to reschedule a canceled flight.

I drive a lot more these days and if Amtrak was better I would take the train more often. I get to catch up on podcasts while driving and usually do it over the weekend so I can stop and see out-of-the-way roadside attractions. Before driving I-80 between Reno and Salt Lake, I never realized how empty some sections of the country are.

I'd be curious to hear if this is happening in Europe or Asia.
by apercu | 2025-09-24 17:14:30+00:00
The capital class didn't like the power employees had during covid. They hated pretending that they care about employee health or well-being. So now they are vindictively sticking it to everyone. This phase, too, will pass.

AI (LLM's) is like cloud - the promise of lowered costs to incentivize organizations to migrate, then a few years later your business is paying double what your Colo and skeleton IT costed.

AI will be the same (if it ever achieves its hype, which might be like Tesla FSD) - you lay off half your tech staff, lose your training pipeline, then in a couple years you're paying more than you were.

The toxic "leadership" has always been there - kind of like the racism on the right of politics - it's just that it's viewed as "ok" to be shitty now.

Also, leadership is in quotes because there's not really much of it around, despite angry comments to contrary to follow.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-09-24 17:14:55+00:00
It's not about who "invented" it. It's about who started the most recent round.

We had a big discussion about cancel culture just a few years ago, where the left responded to complaints about it by saying: "cancel culture doesn't exist", "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences", "free speech isn't hate speech", "you're just saying that because you're a racist/sexist/etc."

In other words: "Our ideology justifies large-scale, systematic application of public shaming for mild noncompliance with our ideology. We aren't going to stop doing this."

A lot of prominent left-wingers simply lack the moral authority to complain. What goes around comes around.

If you, specifically, were complaining about left-wing cancel culture, I'll grant you have the moral authority to complain about right-wing cancel culture as well.
by superkuh | 2025-09-24 17:14:58+00:00
If you view the entire file they are the same thing. And they're always being collected and stored locally even if it's hidden from you.

And a static mp4 file encoded with ffmpeg -movflags +faststart -start_at_zero can be seeked within in any browser from any static webserver and viewed at any seeking time without downloading the rest. Is this streaming too?

Given the first example of fully watching and the second implementation of streaming with a simple static file you can see the streaming/file download distinction you make is much thinner than it first appears. At least from a technical perspective.

In lawyer-ese you are making a valid semantic point which I do acknowledge. "Streaming" in lawyer-ese means a corporation is doing it so there's: 1. legal liability 2. lots of abstraction layers involved so they don't get upset and 3. the local files are hidden from view of the user. Unlike the simple streaming example with a properly encoded .mp4 file.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-24 17:15:46+00:00
Large projects need resources, but who decides how those resources are deployed, to what end, and who benefits from them is the important part.

All of your examples are profit-driven, and not necessarily (even if we do benefit) done for the greater good of all or advancement of society.

We can still accomplish big innovations without those innovations coming from, or being controlled, by nation-state private companies. We've ran high-risk R&D projects successfully before as public projects - Manhattan project, the space race & moon landing, ARPANET, etc.

Waymo could still happen, only it'd be a publicly funded project and the societal benefit would be broader and not tied to a single company's market dominance.
by istjohn | 2025-09-24 17:16:15+00:00
You're strawmaning the socialist view. The stealman version is that people who are feeling economic pain are more likely to want to do something about it, and may be primed to develop class consciousness and become politically mobilized. Socialists generally consider material conditions to be more important than identitarian concerns, which in their view, are often used as a wedge to divide working class people who might otherwise be united by their common economic interests. They don't think poor people are somehow magically less likely to be bigots.
by Confiks | 2025-09-24 17:16:32+00:00
> a lot of people are confused about the project

This is misleading. They are merely exploring options that may allow for issuer unlinkability, but they are actually implementing a linkable solution based on standard cryptography that allows issuers (member state governments) to collude with any verifier (a website requiring age verification) to de-anonymize users. The solution is linkable because both the issuer and the verifier see the same identifiers (the SD-JWT and its signature).

The project is supposed to prove that age verification is viable so that the Commission can use it as a success story, while it completely disregards privacy by design principles in its implementation. That the project intends to perhaps at some point implement privacy enhancing technologies doesn't make it any better. Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.

It will also be trivial to circumvent [1], potentially leading to a cycle of obfuscation and weakening of privacy features that are present in the current issuer linkable design.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44458323
by thomastjeffery | 2025-09-24 17:16:32+00:00
> when that opinion is that they are glad Charlie Kirk was murdered for expressing his opinions.

You are conflating the expression of an opinion with the opinion itself.

Generally, the point people are getting fired for making is that the very circumstances of Charlie Kirk's murder are precisely the circumstances he advocated for. I don't find it hypocritical to draw attention to that irony. I do, however, find it hypocritical to fire someone for expressing dissent about the opinions of a man who literally became famous for directly asking random people in public to enter into arguments with him.
by fraserharris | 2025-09-24 17:16:43+00:00
Small organizations exist largely because volunteers will them to exist by donating their time. From our elementary school, it's clear the people who have time to volunteer are the stay-at-home parents. The dominance of two-income households eroded the small organizations, which created a market (distributing the costs over many more people) for large organizations to fill the void with a worse but market-serving product.
by smokel | 2025-09-24 17:17:00+00:00
Could we perhaps remove "Terence Tao" from the title? It feels somewhat disingenuous to lean on their name to bolster the argument. While someone in this thread is criticized for an ad hominem attack, this risks being the opposite, a kind of pro hominem. The arguments should stand on their own merit without invoking authority in the title, no?
by jermaustin1 | 2025-09-24 17:17:10+00:00
> All I do know is that if they were to stop rearranging seats, it would make the frequency of our flying go down quite a bit.

I don't understand this. When you book a flight, do you not chose your seats so you sit together? Why should it be up to the airline to ensure you get a seat with your baby, that is part of planning a trip.

When I rent "the cheapest car on offer", if it is a 2 seater, and I have 3 passengers, that's on me for not planning for my passengers.

People who chose to not pick their seats (to save the $25 or whatever) shouldn't then punish people like me who paid to sit in a specific seat with specific neighbors.
by jstummbillig | 2025-09-24 17:17:33+00:00
> I don't see a move back to a "smaller" world any time soon

I do! Unironically: AI assisted software development – and please, we can call that anything else, we do not need to confuse it with Serious software development.

Just the amount of super simple software (Apps Script, Office Script) that baseline tech savy people can now/soon build to enhance what they think their business needs are, without the impossible constraint of having to pay a dev to find it out for/with them (because that is really not how you can find that out, while you find out everything else about your super small business) gives me a lot of hope here.
by BasilofBasiley | 2025-09-24 17:17:53+00:00
While everyone took the opportunity to reply to you with "Not in my bank/country/to-my-awareness" This is what's happening in Portugal:

https://old.reddit.com/r/portugal/comments/1msc886/obriga%C3...

Effectively, if the client doesn't download the App, they will never be able to log into the homebanking website again. The bank enforced this and now if you login normally it will redirect to a page where you can download the app or use up one of three remaining chances to login. I am down to two. From now on, I'm only able to use ATM's or go to an actual teller to make payments and such. The app requires that I have a Google account or an Apple account and I think that's just messed up, specially for a Portuguese bank.

The app on the google store is pt.novobanco.nbsmarter if anyone is curious. It has interesting permissions as well.

Edit: This is the landing page (one login left, oh dear...) https://files.catbox.moe/x117iy.png

rsync, here you go:

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/652314/
Show HN: CloudQA – TruRT: Regression Testing That Doesn't Break Every Sprint
by ArunCQA | 2025-09-24 17:19:05+00:00
Hey HN, I’m Arun co-founder of CloudQA (https://cloudqa.io/). We’ve been building TruRT, our regression testing suite designed to help teams escape the “brittle automation” trap. Here's a pain point I'm sure many of us have encountered: our automated regression suites require a significant and ever-growing amount of maintenance time. We consistently found that even minor front-end changes, such as renaming a button ID or adjusting a CSS selector, can cause a cascade of failures across dozens of test scripts.

The downstream effect is twofold: Test coverage stagnates because the QA team's bandwidth is consumed by fixing what's broken, not by creating new, valuable tests. Development velocity slows as the team is forced into a reactive mode, constantly firefighting broken tests instead of performing proactive quality assurance. This shifts the focus from ensuring product quality to simply keeping the test suite functional.

Why we built this: In our own experience (and with customer feedback), regression testing often becomes more work than manual testing. We wanted a tool that is resilient, scalable, and easy enough for non-developers to actually use.

Here's a quicker look at how our tool, TruRT, approaches this:

More Resilient Selectors: It uses contextual awareness to find elements even after minor UI changes like a new element ID. This makes tests far less brittle and drastically cuts down on maintenance.

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We’re offering TruRT as part of CloudQA’s testing-as-a-service platform, available today. Subscription-based pricing, with a free tier for small teams (details here: https://cloudqa.io/).

We’d love feedback from the HN community:

What’s your biggest headache with regression testing today?

If you’ve tried codeless/self-healing tools, did they actually reduce maintenance for you?

What would make regression automation indispensable for your team?

Happy to answer any questions, and looking forward to your thoughts!
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-24 17:19:15+00:00
> It's not about who "invented" it. It's about who started the most recent round.

Starting when? Several of the examples are quite recent; there's no point in my life where people of both political persuasions weren't boycotting or criticizing things.

> freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences

This remains entirely true. The First Amendment protects us from government-applied consequences. Being fired for being an asshole by a private employer has always been kosher. Being fired because the FCC threatens your employer with revocation of their broadcast licenses over protected speech has not.