MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw0101d | 2025-09-05 16:46:09+00:00
> I was kind of surprised how the USA bounced back from Trump I. But I really wonder if there is going to be a similar recovery this time around. The amount of outright destruction is overwhelming.

It is as resilient as the people (in power?) want it to be:

> To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.

* James Madison, Papers 11:163, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-11-02-010...
by Hamuko | 2025-09-05 16:46:22+00:00
I got a power-over-Ethernet splitter for my Pi 2B since being able to use PoE might be the only advantage it has over a mini PC. Otherwise it's just a very slow PC that takes 45 minutes to compile the single service I run on it.

Not sure if any of the newer Pi boards can be powered with a simple splitter rather than a PoE hat, as the 2B is quite low power.
From Meme to Infrastructure: MORI Meets Fireblocks' Big Move
by Victornomics | 2025-09-05 16:46:24+00:00
Fireblocks has just rolled out an enterprise-grade stablecoin network, and it’s already making waves. With over 40 participants on board including Circle, the issuer of USDC the network is designed to make stablecoin movement and product development far easier by offering unified APIs and streamlined workflows.

The adoption is real, too. Companies across more than 20 African countries are already using this network, showing how fast the demand for stablecoin infrastructure is growing.

Interestingly on the other hand, MORI Coin is building its image as a meme token with a twist drawing inspiration from Professor Moriarty, the master strategist from the shadows. It’s being positioned as more than just another coin, getting listed on BingX Futures at it's peak, but as a kind of underground currency, fueled by storytelling, hype, and a strong community push.

Can this infrastructure improvement lead to better liquidity and more stablecoin-based products?
by croes | 2025-09-05 16:46:44+00:00
The question is, why doesn’t it work? Erroneous code, erroneous algorithm, missing feature in the underlying infrastructure?

The effort it takes to implement a feature makes is more likely you think twice before you start.

If the effort goes to zero, so does the thinking.

We will turn from programmers to just LLM customers sooner or later.

Because testing if it works can be done by none programmers
by ygjb | 2025-09-05 16:46:50+00:00
Heh. I worked remotely for most of my career (~20 of 25 years). In that time I frequently worked 50+ hours a week because I actually enjoy the work that I do (application security, including security testing, and the joy of popping a shell never gets old). RTO has impacted the amount of hours I work because I head to the office, and then when my work day is done, I pack up my computer and head home. Unless I am paged or have a meeting to support someone outside of normal working hours, I don't crack my work computer, it's easier to just sit at my home workstation. When I WFH my home workstation had my work computer set up, and I would default to logging into that, unless I was playing a video game or other working on explicitly personal stuff.

There are folks who abuse WFH/remote work (see the overemployed groups on reddit and other places), but companies are losing access to alot of extra, effectively unpaid, time by imposing an arbitrary start and stop time for people based on physical location.
by wonger_ | 2025-09-05 16:46:53+00:00
Clickbaity title; more like "things to consider when designing animations."

I appreciate subtle animations like the button press. Visual feedback gives me confidence in UI actions and makes things less jarring. Same idea with CSS smooth scroll.

But a lot of this feels subjective. Anybody have user studies on the effectiveness of UI animation?

Also, I think a lot of people would be happier if web apps exposed settings like zero animation / mild animation/ full animation. Power users could speed up their workflows by turning off animations. Kinda like my phone UI settings.
by dathinab | 2025-09-05 16:47:05+00:00
> build/package Podman as part of their OS release process. But that is notoriously out-of-date.

providing duplicate/additional non official builds for other OS is

- undermining the OSes package curation

- confusing for the user

- cost additional developer time, which for most OSS is fairly limited

- for non vendorable system dependencies this additional dev time cost can be way higher in all kinds of surprising ways

- obfuscate if a Linux distro is in-cable of properly maintaining their packages

- lead to a splitting of the target OS specific eco system of software using this as a dependency

etc.

it's a lose lose lose for pretty much everyone involved

so as long as you don't have a have a monetary reason that you must do it (like e.g. docker has) it's in my personal opinion a very dump thing to do

I apologize for being a bit blunt but in the end why not use a Linux distribution which works with modern software development cycles?

Blaming others for problems with the OS you decided to use when there are alternatives seems not very productive.
by ajross | 2025-09-05 16:47:10+00:00
So I completely agree on principle. But nonetheless the political job being done by DHS/ICE is not to uniformly and fairly scrutinize all visa holders in the interest of justice. They're supposed to be locking up the "illegals" constantly being held up as an enemy class by the ruling regime, and in practice that means "Latin American laborers", and not "Korean engineers".

No one was sold on throwing international professionals in jail just for showing up to do a job they took in good faith. That's clearly wrong, in a way that rounding up the "bad" people isn't. And so it shows up the horrifying implications of current policy.
by ftmz | 2025-09-05 16:47:10+00:00
Fernando from DolarApp here.

To add some context: our clients in LatAm use DolarApp to spend internationally with a card at the best rates, send and receive cross-border transfers (not just remittances, but also payroll), and to keep their savings pegged to the dollar. Stablecoins let us deliver a much better user experience and significantly lower fees — in some countries, up to 10x better than incumbents.

That said, most of our users don’t care about the underlying infrastructure. They care about the benefits. It’s similar to how someone using a bank card at an ATM doesn’t know (or care) that the system might be running on COBOL.

We see it as our job as product people to absorb that complexity so our users get the benefits without having to deal with the complex mechanics behind them. That’s what we believe is helping unlock a platform shift.
by flail | 2025-09-05 16:47:33+00:00
Whenever a development effort involves a lot of AI-generated code, the nature of the task shifts from typing-heavy to code-review-heavy.

Cognitively, these are very different tasks. With the former, we actively drive technical decisions (decide on architecture, implementation details, even naming). The latter offers all these decisions made, and we first need to untangle them all before we can scrutinize the details.

What's more, often AI-generated code results in bigger PRs, which again adds to the cognitive load.

And some developers fall into a rabbit hole of starting another thing while they wait for their agent to produce the code. Adding context switching to an already taxing challenge basically fries brains. There's no way such a code review to consistently catch the issues.

I see how development teams define health routines around working with generated code. Especially around limiting context switching. But also retaking tasks to be made by hand.
by tripletpeaks | 2025-09-05 16:47:34+00:00
Things Red Team worries about:

1. If a democrat is elected, they will take all their guns (their campaign rhetoric keeps saying this will happen, but it continues being no part of democratic presidential campaign messaging, and hasn’t happened the times they warned it definitely would—this one’s fake)

2. Election security. But republicans keep getting into positions to investigate this and either not doing it (because they know it’s BS) or doing it and finding only a handful of mostly-accidental cases that don’t favor either party. Also fake.

3. Leftward shift around acceptance of non-standard sexual and social norms. This one’s real. Whether it’s a problem or just… fine and not worth worrying about? That’s another matter.

4. A bunch of totally wacky shit like litter boxes in classrooms. Fake.

5. Healthcare prices. Real! Democrats also worry about this.

6. Socialism. LOL we’re not remotely near it, very nearly nobody elected in the Democratic Party is left of center-right in most of the rest of our peer states, on economic issues and social safety nets and such. Fake issue.

7. Illegal immigrants increasing the crime rate (fake) and taking our jobs or driving down wages (true, with an asterisk that the effects are complicated, but sure, true) and bringing in drugs (you want citizen drug mules, they cross the border easier, or to just use shipping containers or cargo trucks entering the ordinary way with some greased palms as you can do crazy volume that way, this is fake)

8. Crime being out of control. Broadly, fake. (“But police stats could be…” yeah we have victimization surveys too, people study this and already thought of your objection. Again, fake)

9. Colleges being too liberal. Look at all that “fake” stuff above. Yeah gee I wonder why, dude. Real, but wholly self-inflicted.

10. Rampant fraud in social programs, by the people receiving the aid. This is extremely well-studied. Fake.

11. The budget deficit. Except Republicans are even worse for the budget than democrats, over the last 40 years. By, like, quite a bit. Mostly because they think tax cuts magically pay for themselves, plus Bush’s wars. They mocked the shit out of Gore for talking sense on this topic, and elected cut-taxes-and-spend Dubya. So. Real issue but they are extremely confused about who to vote for to improve it.

There are more but you get the idea. Yes, Fox News and Mark Levin and all them have convinced republicans the world is going to end if democrats win elections. But it’s largely based on completely made-up shit.

Left as an exercise for the reader to make a list for Democrats’ side. Nb how much of its worry about Republicans causing harm by trying to address the fake issues above. Probably most of it. And that’s a real thing that happens, to be worried about.
by antisthenes | 2025-09-05 16:47:40+00:00
Yes, or even just being a one-stop shop for example one-liners and config files for simple linux programs/tools.

Hey LLM, give me some examples for X Y Z tools, and provide doc snippets for the command line parameters being used in the examples.

Rather than spending 2-3 hours scouring the Internet and having 50 tabs open, you can have it in minutes.
by stevenkkim | 2025-09-05 16:48:11+00:00
For me, a really annoying tick in Cursor is how it often says "Perfect!" after completing a task, especially if it completely fails to execute the prompt.

So I told Cursor, "please stop saying 'perfect' after executing a task, it's very annoying." Cursor replied something like, "Got it, I understand" and then I saw a pop-up saying it created a memory for this request.

Then immediately after the next task, it declares "Perfect!" (spoiler: it was not perfect.)
by modernerd | 2025-09-05 16:48:39+00:00
I wish more designers thought this way.

I have a blog post draft called, “5 principals of interactive animation” aping the “12 principles of animation” from the 80's that I thought every would-be UX designer might learn from. It mirrors a lot from this post!

1. Purpose over ornament.

2. The more often, the less.

3. Timing shapes perception.

4. Motion adapts to state.

5. Silence is an option.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-09-05 16:48:49+00:00
Nope - you are wrong, at least for Hispanic men!

Hispanic Men went 50% Trump, 48% harris - https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patte... (page 3, first chart)

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patte...

Sorry liberals, but it's a bad idea to assume that a predominantly catholic conservative minority will ever be reliable voters for you. Democrats will need to among other things stop being pro choice to ever recover the latino vote.
by ethagknight | 2025-09-05 16:49:05+00:00
'Many' in the context of a claim of illegal detention, can and should be given a more precise number, otherwise it's fair to assume a narrative is being sold. ATF Atlanta claims 450 workers are 'unlawful aliens'. A counter claim should be specific or get tossed out. 10s? 100s? Vague damage control is never a good sign.

SK embassy and Hyundai itself have significant liability in admitting or even acknowledging employment of illegals.
by jsmith45 | 2025-09-05 16:49:16+00:00
Block based automated signaling can technically be implemented as a primarily local system. Each block needs to know if there is a train in itself block (in which case all block entrance signals must show stop, and approach signals indicate that they can be entered, but the train must be slowing, so it can come to a stop by the block entrance signal). It must also know about a few preceeding blocks for each path leading into it, so as to know which contain trains that might be trying to enter this block, so it can select at most one to be given the proceed signal, and others to be told to brake to stop in time for the entrance signal. While it is nice if it knows the intended routes of each train so it can favor giving the proceed indicator to a train that actually wants to enter it, but if it lacks that information, then giving the indication to a train that will end up using points to take a different path doesn't hurt safety, just efficiency.

Of course, centralized signaling is better, allowing for greater efficiency, helps dispatch keep track better track of the trains, makes handling malfunctioning signals a lot safer, among many other benefits. But it doesn't mean local signaling can't be done.
by yencabulator | 2025-09-05 16:49:44+00:00
> Memory is slow, Disk is fast - Part 2.

Bullshit clickbait title. More like "naive algorithm is slower than prefetching". Hidden at the end of the article:

> Memory is slow - when you use it oldschool. > Disk is fast - when you are clever with it.

The author spent a lot of time benchmarking a thing completely unrelated to the premise of the article. And the only conclusion to be drawn from the benchmark is utterly unsurprising.

---

Linux mmap behavior has two features that can hurt, but this article does not deliver that sermon well. Here's what to worry about with mmap:

- for reads, cache misses are unpredictable, and stall more expensive resources than an outstanding io_uring request - for writes, the atomicity story is very hard to get right, and unpredictable writeback delay stalls more expensive resources than an outstanding io_uring request (very few real world production systems with durability write through mmap; you can use conventional write APIs with read-side mmap)
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-05 16:49:51+00:00
The ESTA VISA waiver which is the easiest form of entry to the USA for close allies like South Korea explicitly allows business activities. The idea is that it's meant to be easy to come to the USA for consultation, conferences, trade shows etc. The most basic VISA for countries like South Korea explicitly enables this.

If they came to the USA legally it's hard to understand how they didn't have the right to do things like consult on the build-out of the new factory.

If anyone wants to argue the ESTA doesn't allow this (despite the explicit wording that it does) you're basically saying no more international business conferences and no more business trips to USA offices without a very heavy weight multiyear immigration process.

Which is fine if you want to come out and suggest that. It'll kill what's left of Vegas, the airlines, conference centers, etc. It would also harm any international business in the USA but if you really really want to go around saying "ICE are right to detain the South Koreans here" I'm OK with that. I'll make sure that people from my home country understand that the USA is completely closed for business.
by fsmv | 2025-09-05 16:49:52+00:00
I actually really strongly prefer 0 being identical to unset. If you have an unset state then you have to check if the field is unset every time you use it. Using 0 allows you to make all of your code "just work" when you pass 0 to it so you don't need to check at all.

It's like how in go most structs don't have a constructor, they just use the 0 value.

Also oneof is made that way so that it is backwards compatible to add a new field and make it a oneof with an existing field. Not everything needs to be pure functional programming.
by schiffern | 2025-09-05 16:49:52+00:00
I'm referring to the oversaturated mainstream media coverage, not real activist.

The golf course number was surprising so I shared it. Forgive me.

It's telling that for AI we're only given impressive-sounding water numbers, but never in the context of total consumption. It has all the hallmarks of a media-driven moral panic, not serious activism.

The fact that HN's response is to compare (these particular) water users to murderers[0] and cry whataboutism and unseriousness against me... it's not exactly helping convince me that this isn't 90% motivated moral panic and 10% legitimate grievance.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45097661
by tripletpeaks | 2025-09-05 16:50:40+00:00
It’s also a topic of scientific study with a century or more of literature.

It’s a little more complicated than what you wrote, but basically: yes.

[edit] Example study construction: pick some issue where there’s been a heavy propaganda push against it from one party, but a law they opposed passed anyway. Ideally, something like a tax increase, that can directly affect voters in a way they might reasonably be expected to understand and know about. Observe that the (say) tax hike affects not more than 2% of the population you’re studying. Survey. Observe that 35% or 40% of people say the new tax law increased their taxes, and very nearly all of them favor the party that opposed the hike and was claiming or implying it would affect more people than it did.

Repeat similar studies over a period of decades, always with familiar outcomes. Draw conclusions.

Separately, you can probe basic understanding of how our government & various policies or laws work. You’ll find half of everyone not knowing how marginal income tax rates work, that almost all the people who think our foreign aid spending is way too high believe it’s 10x, 20x, 30x higher than it actually is, et c. Generally speaking, voters hardly know how anything works, so of course they buy lies about it. That’s not me being shitty, it’s what the evidence overwhelmingly says is true. And this is far from an exhaustive treatment of alarming traits & behaviors of the electorate.
by jcims | 2025-09-05 16:50:49+00:00
>The other tic I love is "Actually, that's not right." That happens because once agents finish their tool-calling, they'll do a self-reflection step.

I saw this a couple of days ago. Claude had set an unsupported max number of items to include in a paginated call, so it reduced the number to the max supported by the API. But then upon self-reflection realized that setting anything at all was not necessary and just removed the parameter from the code and underlying configuration.
by MarcusE1W | 2025-09-05 16:50:50+00:00
My optimistic interpretation is slightly different. So far the US is still a democracy with a President wo doesn’t take the law too seriously.

On the other side every democracy looses a bit focus over time and laws to keep government clean get softened, IMHO.

But let’s say the next election happens and the opposition will be voted in (if not, god knows where this ends) , then there will be a government with a state apparatus in tatas. They have the burden but also the opportunity to rethink how things are supposed to work and can make changes that most previous governments did not even thought possible.

Maybe, I don’t know. But maybe this slightly painful time is part of a renewal process that in the end will be helpful. And Trump of all people makes it involuntary possible.
by znpy | 2025-09-05 16:51:55+00:00
They have.

Most likely gp is having issues with volumes and hasn’t figured out how to mix the :z and :Z attribute to bind mounts. Or the containers are trying to do something that security-wise is a big no-no.

In my experience SELinux defaults have been much wiser than me and every time i had issues i ended up learning a better way to do what i wanted to do.

Other than that… it essentially just works.
by caminanteblanco | 2025-09-05 16:52:01+00:00
I love the idea, but at least on android the text scrolls backwards as some people have already noticed. Also, my keyboard thinks that wrvy word needs to be capitalized for some reason so I'm typing backwards all caps. And with he no editing, if it was set up in a way that let my phone at least autocorrect my typos, I think that would go a long way to making this more usable.

But kudos for getting something out there, and I'm really excited to get to use it on my laptop where I'm sure it works better.
by blackbear_ | 2025-09-05 16:52:18+00:00
> When you look often enough or at the wrong times, there is nothing to observe.

Is this because atoms don't exist, or because we are looking in the wrong way due to partial (mis)understanding?

The "new truth" that you talk about is just a different understanding of the concept of atom, but the actual thing that we call atom and that exists in the real world (whether as matter or in some other form) has not changed.
by thinkharderdev | 2025-09-05 16:52:59+00:00
If you need to deserialize an old version then it's not a problem. The unknown field is just ignored during deserialization. The problem is adding a required field since some clients might be sending the old value during the rollout.

But in some situations you can be pretty confident that a field will be required always. And if you turn out to be wrong then it's not a huge deal. You add the new field as optional first (with all upgraded clients setting the value) and then once that is rolled out you make it required.

And if a field is in fact semantically required (like the API cannot process a request without the data in a field) then making it optional at the interface level doesn't really solve anything. The message will get deserialized but if the field is not set it's just an immediate error which doesn't seem much worse to me than a deserialization error.
by Telemakhos | 2025-09-05 16:53:00+00:00
The factory was still under construction. I suspect that a (legally entered) South Korean management team hired local subcontractors without understanding the oversight that would be required, and the subcontractors hired (non-Korean) undocumented aliens as often happens in construction.

Whistleblowers and local reporting [0] indicate lax safety standards in the construction of the plant, with three dead by May. OSHA has opened at least fifteen investigations into the construction site [1]. The latest story on OSHA investigations is dated today [2], and it mentions that OSHA did not receive reports of several accidents. That might well be because some of the injured were undocumented workers. That recent report mentions Glovis EV Logistics America by name and two unidentified subcontractors as targets of the OSHA investigation.

I would not be at all surprised if OSHA didn't have ICE raid this place to shut it down before more people got hurt.

[0] https://www.wjcl.com/article/hyundai-bryan-county-constructi...

[1] https://www.enr.com/articles/60802-third-fatality-recorded-a...

[2] https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/09/05/osha-investigating-one-h...