MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by flyinglizard | 2025-09-23 12:26:32+00:00
The notion that Israel was created by force is just not true. Jews were always a part of historical Palestine, and most of the land they inhabited was legally bought, by bodies like the JNF, up until the war of 1948. That war, started by the Arabs, came as a result of the League of Nations declaration of the formation of Israel. It's important to stress that there was never a Palestinian country, nor a cohesive Palestinian nation ahead of the formation of Israel. That historical land was controlled by various empires, and people used to come and go through it quite freely.
by M95D | 2025-09-23 12:26:51+00:00
But why would anyone use Omarchy (based on Arch) and not use Gentoo directly? Not a separate project based on Gentoo, but a Gentoo Reference System [1]?

Gentoo already has all dev tools installed - they're an indispensable part of the package manager.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RelEng_GRS
by komali2 | 2025-09-23 12:27:00+00:00
Well, first, I reject both sidesism because Nazism is an ideology that wants me and my friends to die, and denies our very humanity, and my ideology doesn't really want anyone to die, and absolutely does not deny anyone's humanity.

However, under liberal democracy I personally don't believe the wearing of a swastika should be a crime, though I don't mind if people wearing swastikas are rejected from every interaction they attempt to have, denied business everywhere. The simple banning of nazis memorabilia doesn't seem to be doing anything to stop the rise of nazism in Germany so it seems pointless overall. The Germans had their opportunity to actually apply this anti-nazi law when banning the AFD came up, and they failed to act, so it seems the only thing the law is good for is preventing people from playing Wolfenstein.

Under other forms of society I think the wearing of a swastika should result in the ejection of someone from society entirely.
by tbrownaw | 2025-09-23 12:27:02+00:00
> Officials said the anonymous communications network, which included more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers, could interfere with emergency response services and could be used to conduct encrypted communication. One official said the network was capable of sending 30 million text messages per minute, anonymously. The official said the agency had never before seen such an extensive operation.

> Investigators found the SIM cards and servers in August at several locations within a 35-mile radius of the United Nations headquarters. The discovery followed a monthslong investigation into what the agency described as anonymous “telephonic threats” made to three high-level U.S. government officials this spring — one official in the Secret Service and two who work at the White House, one of the officials said.

So 100k SIM cards scattered around the middle of New York City.

Probably an egress point for scammers and bot farms, and the speculation about local disruptions isn't grounded in anything other than scale?
by perihelions | 2025-09-23 12:27:33+00:00
Is there a less clickbait-y source? There's no tangible link to the United Nations described in the article; that seems to be a gratuitous flourish.

> "several locations within a 35-mile radius of the United Nations headquarters"

That's the entirety of New York City!

edit to add: This very weird part was actually lifted from the USSS press release,

> "These devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting of the United Nations General Assembly now underway in New York City."

https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-s... ("U.S. Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications threat in New York tristate area")
by flanked-evergl | 2025-09-23 12:28:08+00:00
China and India is buying all the gas that Europe is not. Russia is doing pretty okay financially. And this helps China further undercut European industry.

Europe dug their own hole, against the advice of others. German diplomats were laughing at Trump in 2019 when he warned them against total dependency on Russian energy. They don't get extra points for creating the conditions for the war and then creating the conditions for its continuation.
Show HN: Snapdeck – Build slides with open-source LLMs and agent routing
by unsexyproblem | 2025-09-23 12:28:19+00:00
I’m a student founder, and Snapdeck has been a 6-month sprint from idea to product. In March I hacked together a minimal version and launched it on Product Hunt just to see if anyone else had the same frustration with slides — and people did. A couple of months later I tried a Figma plugin version, which brought in more feedback but still felt limited.

Yesterday we launched the first full standalone version on Product Hunt and reached #2 of the day. About 1,000 people have signed up so far, with ~30% retention among the main target users.

Under the hood, Snapdeck runs on an orchestration layer we built that routes tasks across multiple open-source language models and commercial APIs, acting as an “agent” to generate structured slides and editable charts. Unlike most AI slide tools, everything stays fully editable — layouts, visuals, and content can be dragged, modified, or updated via natural-language commands. Current output is PDF, with PPTX coming soon. Demo screenshots: https://youtu.be/fmlQ6cccj1w .

We’re considering open-sourcing parts of the orchestration layer, and I’d love feedback from HN: is this genuinely useful for real workflows, and what’s still missing?

https://snapdeck.site
by Chance-Device | 2025-09-23 12:28:42+00:00
Since you seem to know about the subject, how are these not immediately found and shut down? It seems like the messages they send could be traced to the sims physical location, and having a massive cluster of thousands of sims just sitting in an apartment also seems like an obvious giveaway. And there’s all the traceability required to rent the locations and buy the equipment. It seems like bothering with this is just asking to get caught.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-23 12:28:53+00:00
Actually I think the pascal's wager goes the other way. We're in a giant game of musical chairs in the software industry, and the people who will keep getting seats at each round are the overall most skilled and capable of using AI, and this is going to bias more towards AI skill over time.

The consequence in this model of not being an early AI adopter is that unless you're a rock star performer already, you're going to fall behind the curve and get ejected from the game of software engineering early. The people who stay in the game until the end will be the ones that have vision now.

If I'm wrong, then all the people who learned AI now will have just wasted a few years on a low value skill, which is honestly the story of the entire history of tech (hello flash devs?), i.e. not an existential threat to engineers.
by lenkite | 2025-09-23 12:28:58+00:00
I have actually practically tried out a test where I give a huge config file in XML and then JSON and ask folks question on its structure.

The ones who read the XML file understood immediately. Why ? Because XML is self-documenting and the repetition via clear de-limitation extensively aids human memory.

The one who read the JSON file just glazed over it and needed to refer back to the document and re-read several times.

I urge all the XML naysayers and XML haters to please carry out this practical test with their colleagues. Please choose a good level of complexity and nesting and please make use of XML attributes for scalar values.

XML is SO FAR ahead in readability and grokking that it is not funny.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-09-23 12:29:34+00:00
Yes but it's not only wallets, that is possible because of transparent blockchain and non fungible by design.

Imagine you could get a dollar bill* which value could evaporate and even put you in criminal trouble because X amount of unrelated money transfers before it got to you it was used in something criminal.

*dollar bills are also not fully fungible because IDs and currency tracking but those aren't implemented everywhere unlike with btc.

Fungibility: gold = monero >>> dollar bill >> bitcoin and most other transparent coins
by myrmidon | 2025-09-23 12:30:05+00:00
> the amount of buyers is no where near where regulators want them to be [...] The real problem regulators can't regulate away is that people are not buying EVs

To quote the article: Analysts note that a 20–25% share is enough to meet the EU’s emissions targets for 2025–2027 and Europe has just reached that milestone.
Can Nouveau be used for GPU offloading on Nvidia Optimus systems?
by lproven | 2025-09-23 12:31:00+00:00
I own 2 old Thinkpads with integrated NVIDIA GPUs. These GPUs cannot be replaced or upgraded.

The NVIDIA legacy drivers needed for these GPUs do not run on Linux kernels above 6.5. All current and recent versions of Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, and Alpine all use kernels too new for these drivers to work.

Unfortunately NVIDIA's Optimus technology for software GPU switching and offloading to the discrete GPU only directly works with NVIDIA binary drivers.

The Nouveau driver does still support the GPUs fine, though.

I can't find any HOWTO or docs new enough to discuss using Nouveau with Optimus on kernel > 6.5. Does such a thing exist?

Better still, is there a tool I can run to configure this? It could be simple: any Nouveau version works with all the GPUs it can drive. No system-specific or GPU-specific config should be needed. Even a single config file and a list of dependencies would help.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-23 12:31:06+00:00
I don't have examples, I'm asking you to provide evidence which supports your extraordinary claim.

You claimed, with a high level of confidence, that the text isn't written by AI because it lacks obvious "tells" which you believe to be present in any LLM generated text. But if the absence of these "tells" reliably indicated human writing then LLM detectors would have false negative rate of approximately 0%, do they?
by thephyber | 2025-09-23 12:31:09+00:00
Edit: absolutely make sure you are running the newest version of the image. It patches security issues in the app.

Read this article:

https://torrentfreak.com/qbittorrent-web-ui-exploited-to-min...

It mentions the app will use uPnP to expose itself automatically.

Remember that BitTorrent protocol is P2P, so it likely is accessible from the internet.

My suggestion is to wipe the image, update pull/run the newest version, and change the admin credentials after it starts up.
by instagib | 2025-09-23 12:31:12+00:00
Can also text 911 now which would overburden the texting protocol network so no one else’s texts will go through.

It’s a cell tower jammer and terrorism multiplier. Can’t call or text. It will probably disturb internet service as well. Include a few radio jammers for local police and a few satellite antennas you could create an opportunity then a panic to cover your tracks getting out.
by john01dav | 2025-09-23 12:31:25+00:00
In Rust communities, like the official Discord server, there tend to be more left type people. Furthermore, if you go to left leaning communities that aren't related to programming the few programmers who are there are almost always Rust enjoyers. The cryptocurrency use also exists, of course. I suspect that the common thread in both cases is idealism -- leftists want what they see as an ideal economic system while crypto bros, when they aren't scamming, want an ideal financial system. Rust in many ways is closer to an ideal language in a way that feels to me to be similar to those other idealist arguments
by tedivm | 2025-09-23 12:31:26+00:00
For the physical hardware I use the esp32-s3-box[1]. The esphome[2] suite has firmware you can flash to make the device work with HomeAssistant automatically. I have an esphome profile[3] I use, but I'm considering switching to this[4] profile instead.

For the actual AI, I basically set up three docker containers: one for speech to text[5], one for text to speech[6], and then ollama[7] for the actual AI. After that it's just a matter of pointing HomeAssistant at the various services, as it has built in support for all of these things.

1. https://www.adafruit.com/product/5835

2. https://esphome.io/

3. https://gist.github.com/tedivm/2217cead94cb41edb2b50792a8bea...

4. https://github.com/BigBobbas/ESP32-S3-Box3-Custom-ESPHome/

5. https://github.com/rhasspy/wyoming-faster-whisper

6. https://github.com/rhasspy/wyoming-piper

7. https://ollama.com/
by ageitgey | 2025-09-23 12:31:35+00:00
We are so far past that in mass market fiction. It's folding back in on itself.

Tom Clancy has new books coming out every year and he's been dead for over a decade. They don't hide the "ghostwriter" but they also put Tom Clancy in huge letters at the top even though he had less than nothing to do with it.

https://www.amazon.com/Clancy-Line-Demarcation-Jack-Novel-eb...
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-23 12:31:36+00:00
Not sure why this old talking points keeps being repeated?

BEVs are like the best consumers imaginable for our grids. Their owners get hourly contracts and perfectly time their charging when the prices are low helping stabilize the grid.

Some even grid companies even support adding cars charging to the ancillary markets further increasing grid reliability - while also paying the BEV owners for their service.

Taking in the supply chain from producing oil, refining it and transporting it the change in electricity consumption is negigible because especially the refining step is quite electricity intensive.

But if no refining happens in a market then something like a 20-30% increase in electricity usage is expected.

Please do tell me how that entails a "collapse"?
by bayindirh | 2025-09-23 12:31:45+00:00
Running at 2000FPS in low light (and getting meaningful data at that sensor size) is also impossible to begin with. Even if you can do constant 60, you're in good shape.

2000 can be good for doing multiexposure and maybe detecting fine movement, but assuming that everything running 2000FPS (and processing 16000 frames/sec) is not a simple thing, esp, if you're running in an uncontrolled and chaotic environment.
by lossolo | 2025-09-23 12:31:58+00:00
> US can always retract the EUV license and sell the Cymer light sources to Canon or Nikon if they wish

Then why are they not doing it? Isn't it in the national interest? Why not create a US company that makes EUV machines like ASML does? Why is there only one company in the world capable of doing it if they are "just steppers"?

btw what is used now in EUV machines are step and scan scanners and ASML builds the whole EUV scanner system (stages, metrology, controls, system integration). Scanners replaced steppers for leading edge nodes.

Oh and Cymer is owned by ASML from 2013, so it’s ASML's own US light source business working with TRUMPF (Germany) for the CO2 drive lasers.
by rich_sasha | 2025-09-23 12:32:02+00:00
Why 2k FPS? I'm not being facetious; human eye sees, apparently, at around 25fps, which is why this is what TVs and cinemas used to use. At that rate, and 144kph, say, the car moves 1.4m between frames.

Fine, so maybe you think this is too much. But 10x this still gives you 14cm between frames, at what is already speeding in most jurisdictions I know of.

2000 FPS seems to my untrained eye like a problem, not a feature.
by komali2 | 2025-09-23 12:32:13+00:00
> Taiwan wouldn't exist if it wasn't for mainlanders voting with their feet.

Woah, woah, the ROC invaded Taiwan with a huge group of armed settler-colonialists, and then initiated a violent martial law on everyone here. The KMT settlers didn't vote with their feet, they imperialised Taiwan and the people here. Taiwan would absolutely exist either way, there would probably have been democracy here a lot sooner if not for the KMT's martial law, since the common thread throughout all 6 decades of their rule, it was non-KMT people (earlier immigrants, indigenous people, and even a few Japanese descendants) that led opposition efforts. Not to mention much of the reason the PRC makes imperialist claims against Taiwan is because of their humiliation that they failed to defeat the KMT utterly, and this country retained the name ROC when it transitioned to democracy in the 90's - the best the opposition could achieve in the face of KMT power.

Really Taiwan makes the opposite case because after the cultural revolution, which is before the beginning of Taiwanese democracy, Taiwanese people could have gone to the PRC and had life there, fleeing martial law, but instead people stayed and worked to overthrow the KMT.

I personally believe packing your shit and heading out is a totally valid action in the face of oppression and fascism, that's why I left the USA after all. I don't think I agree that everyone has a responsibility to risk their lives to overthrow oppressive leaders, the reason I wouldn't stick around though is I won't accept the moral risk of accidentally supporting the regime, which is why for example I don't pay USA taxes anymore.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-09-23 12:32:19+00:00
Data centers typically use 60% (or less) on average of their max rating.

You over-provision so that you (almost) always have enough compute to meet your customers needs (even at planet scale, your demand is bursty), you're always doing maintenance on some section, spinning up new hardware and turning down old hardware.

So, apples to apples, this would likely not even be 2x at 30TWh for Google.
by grafmax | 2025-09-23 12:32:31+00:00
That presumes some kind of just system imprisoning the husband. In fact the US pursues its power and wealth, supporting dictatorships and undermining democracies to the degree it believes doings so benefits its special interests and geopolitical calculus. Even to the point instituting famine against children in horrific genocide which is happening today.

Yet US hegemony is collapsing. It is simply running out of the money and power necessary to be a racketeer that cynically calls itself world police.
by Degorath | 2025-09-23 12:32:32+00:00
Not the person you were discussing with, but I have to add that to me the main benefit of using Stubby et al. was exactly the schema that was so nicely searchable.

I currently work in a place where the server-server API clients are generated based on TypeScript API method return types, and it's.. not great. The reality of this situation quickly devolves the types using "extends" from a lot of internal types that are often difficult to reason about.

I know that it's possible for the ProtoBuf types to also push their tendrils quite deep into business code, but my personal experience has been a lot less frustrating with that than the TypeScript return type being generated into an API client.
Show HN: I built a tool to bring your photos to life – Imagemotion AI
by craetical | 2025-09-23 12:33:02+00:00
Hi HN,

I built https://imagemotion-ai.com a tool that generates short videos from an image using AI.

The motivation came from experimenting with generative video models. I wanted something lightweight where you can just upload a photo and get back smooth motion (camera moves, storytelling, etc.) without dealing with model details or GPUs locally.

Current features:

• Supports photos, artwork, and high quality renders. • Outputs short clips (up to ~10s at 4K) • Runs completly in the cloud, no setup required • Storage

Thanks for checking it out — your thoughts would be really valuable!
by lewisjoe | 2025-09-23 12:33:11+00:00
Notion's competitor Coda was acquired by grammarly a year ago! It was surprising because the two markets don't overlap at all - but then it makes sense when I realized all data in Notion/Coda/etc are just food for AI companies.

So I won't be surprised if OpenAI or Anthropic or some AI company buys Notion and makes it their playground to launch AI capabilities.
by cess11 | 2025-09-23 12:33:34+00:00
The word "cooperate" carries a lot of weight in your reasoning. Could you give some examples?

One could also flip your argument and consider the many decades of US narcoterrorism, regime change operations and so on and the rather long line of failed states in its wake, and draw the conclusion that we ought to actually not submit to this 'world power' regardless of whether it 'dresses itself up' to be 'cooperative' while it engages in these activities or not.
by elsombrero | 2025-09-23 12:33:37+00:00
well, I tried it and it works for me. llm output is hard to properly evaluate without actually using it.

I read a lot of good comments on r/localllama, with most people suggesting qwen3 coder 30ba3b, but I never got it to work as well as GLM 4.5 air Q1.

As for using Q2, it will fit in vram, but with very small context or spill over to RAM, but with quite an impact on speed depending on your setup. I have slow ddr4 ram and going for Q1 has been a good compromise for me, but YMMV.
by cameronh90 | 2025-09-23 12:34:17+00:00
The challenge with opening the window isn't even the cost - which is substantial - from about £250/month to £400/month if I have my windows open even a little bit.

The bigger challenge is with my windows open, my heating just can't even keep up! It'll be maxed out and only 18c.

I do the German-style luften twice a day, but if our interiors are just absorbing the compounds and releasing it when the windows are shut, then that's not even going to help much.
by aleksi | 2025-09-23 12:34:37+00:00
> If you have a struct with a simple int field, and you store that somewhere as an *int, the entire struct and anything it points to will be kept alive.

While Go allows interior pointers, I don't think what you say is true. runtime.KeepAlive was added exactly to prevent GC from collecting the struct when only a field pointer is stored. Take a look at this blog post, for example: https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-runtime-finalizer-keepal...
Show HN: Mirrow – TypeScript DSL for animated SVGs with compile-time checks
by era37 | 2025-09-23 12:34:52+00:00
Mirrow is a small TypeScript DSL that compiles to SVG. It aims to make SVG and animation simpler without JSX or hand rolled CSS.

Highlights:

- Compile time checks and attribute validation - Inline events like on:click and @hover - CLI to turn .mirrow files into static SVGs or use as components

Quick try: npx mirrow -i example.mirrow -o example.svg

Playground: [https://mirrow.app/playground](https://mirrow.app/playground) GitHub: [https://github.com/MirrowApp/mirrow](https://github.com/MirrowApp/mirrow)

Feedback on DX, docs, and rough edges is very welcome. Thank you
by lenkite | 2025-09-23 12:35:41+00:00
In reditt, the exact same comment can give you 1K upvotes along with lots of gratz/you-are-the-man/misc-admiration replies or 1K downvotes/you-suck/you-are-a-retard/misc-hate replies along with a moderator/shadow ban, depending on which sub-reditt you are in.
by homefree | 2025-09-23 12:36:42+00:00
I suspect nothing you believe about either of them is remotely true.

I didn’t say I was committed to the religions - I said they’re a battle tested adaptive cultural technology we should be careful about throwing away because there will be unintended consequences. They are very effective at helping people live meaningful lives and have community.

You can choose to be obstinate and read what I wrote through a political lens with no charity - that’s kind of the political religious substitute I’m talking about.
by viraptor | 2025-09-23 12:37:11+00:00
A lot of them are using obscure vocabulary and sciency notation to express very basic ideas. It's like some switch comes on "this is a PAPER it needs fancy words!"

I'd actually like a change from the other end. Instead of "make agents so good they can implement complex papers", how any "write paper so plainly that current agents can implement reproduction"?