MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neya | 2025-10-09 05:13:45+00:00
I wonder what makes a platform like HN work, but not the others.

In almost every other platform moderators are just sad, angry little entitled narcissists who love exerting control over others. This has been proven time and again across multiple platforms:

Wikipedia

Quora

Stackoverflow (surprise, surprise!)

Reddit

..

And basically anything else that depends on those so called moderators for fairness and equality. It would be interesting to experiment using an LLM with explicit set of hard guidelines (like outlined in the Reddit's code of conduct) and see how it behaves. Sure, LLM's are biased due to their training sources, but I'm curious to see if they will be as biased as human moderators. We need the HN formula for the rest of the platforms (I know HN doesn't use AI) with or without AI.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-09 05:14:06+00:00
> If convicted, Rinderknecht would face a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in federal prison and a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.

12 people died in the Palisades fire and destroyed over 6,800 structures. The damage was in the 10s of billions of dollars.

If found guilty, he deserves a very very high penalty.
by sharken | 2025-10-09 05:15:28+00:00
I understand the metaphor, but there is a huge difference between a D&D player and an entity such as a government.

For starters the government is not in the habit of releasing these new powers, once it's established it will stay for a very, very long time.

And you can be sure the new powers will be used in unintended ways, which the citizens will have a hard time blocking.

So it's actually very simple: No to Chatcontrol, now and forever.
by devilbunny | 2025-10-09 05:16:00+00:00
Do not assume that the only reason people return items while claiming a defect is that there is, in fact, a defect.

Yes, if a technically-savvy person tells me "I've done X, Y, and Z, and it still doesn't work", I will believe them. A member of the general public? Even if they aren't scammers, it is entirely possible that they will eat up hours of effort at the store trying to do this.

It's obviously not free. I've seen a low-staff store - I was in a pharmacy (erm, if you're not in the US or Canada, our pharmacies carry a lot more than just health products, though in this case I was there to buy a product you would find in one in the UK or Europe) last week in Canada where they didn't have a cashier at the front. Only the pharmacist and a couple of techs at the back. If you needed assistance rather than self-checkout, you had to ring a bell to summon someone.
by lout332 | 2025-10-09 05:16:07+00:00
A sharp and hilarious parody that tackles AI research culture, alignment debates, and safety concerns through comedy. This Weird Al-style musical parody resonates with the current state of AI development, poking fun at researcher competition, tech culture dynamics, and the sometimes absurd nature of the AI safety discourse. Perfect comedic commentary for the HN community following AI developments.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-10-09 05:16:31+00:00
> While I'm not familiar with sysco as I'm not in the US, these are just chain-y generic and cheap eateries that are frequented by families/people that just want something predictable and cheap?

Chain restaurants of the sort supplied by Sysco in the United States encompass everything from cheap fast food and diners to “fast-casual” to mid-range “sit down” restaurants. Even upscale steakhouses will source things like side dishes (particularly potatoes) from them.

It’s going to suck when that single point of failure supply chain breaks down, but capitalism is antithetical to resiliency, so.
by ctrlt | 2025-10-09 05:16:53+00:00
Self plug: I wanted to have RSS feeds on my browser new tab page along with other widgets, and there weren't that many great options for what I wanted out of a new tab page; so i created my own! https://newtabwidgets.com.

I find the new tab page to be the ideal location for RSS feeds as I can quickly see new updates each time I open a new tab (which is quite frequently!).

It's on the Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/new-tab-widgets/ejn...
by nikitaga | 2025-10-09 05:17:01+00:00
The authenticity of old fashioned forums is often outweighed by their poor UX and in general terrible ergonomics. It's no wonder that so few people want to use them anymore. Reddit's "nested, collapsible comments sorted by upvotes" format is simply superior.

20 years after Reddit started, the best that the forums can offer is perhaps discourse.org, which is barely any better than traditional forums – sleeker UI for sure, but it's still fundamentally the same unworkable linear format. It's like sticking to magnetic tapes in the age of SSDs.

Even Facebook, one of the dumbest discussion platforms, has nested comments. Terribly implemented of course, but how does the platform designed for the lowest-common-denominator kind of user have more advanced discussion features than forums made for discussion connoisseurs? It is utterly baffling.
by treyd | 2025-10-09 05:17:22+00:00
> The current strategy to de-orbit Starlink satellites, which operate in a low orbit below 600 kilometers, is to use the satellites' thrusters to move them to such a low orbit that they eventually catch drag in the atmosphere and burn up in what McDowell calls an "uncontrolled but assisted" reentry.

This is misleading, they're already in a very low orbit and would deorbit on their own in a just few years. They can manoeuver to explicitly deorbit on command, but they need active stationkeeping to stay up there for extended periods.
by Montymio | 2025-10-09 05:17:24+00:00
So the article shows clearly that your graduates do the same exact thing. Grads from Harvard do it. But that doesn’t mean Harvard is telling them to do it. Job seekers are gonna be job seekers. But for you to basically stalk these grads and collect data on them…when they’re not even YOUR grads?? bonkers man. you have no place being a mod. It’s everything broken about the fucking internet right now.
by TZubiri | 2025-10-09 05:17:26+00:00
If you're on a WPA2 network you just have to observe a device connecting and you can crack their session key. It's very easy.

Is it that easy? I'm not sure if you are a genius hacker or just somewhat misinformed.

My understanding was that observing the initial connection is a requirement for the typical exploit. The attack itself is considerably more complex. Additionally WPA2 is a sort of envelope protocol, the actual encryption cipher can vary and so will the attacks.

I'm not an expert, but I looked into this stuff 7 years ago when I was broke, and I apt installed aircrack-ng from a starbucks so I could try siphoning off my neighbour's wifi, I wasn't able to. Skill Issue sure, but it wasn't as trivial as "just observing a device connecting".

I personally don't see much HTTP, I think a more reasonable attack would be hoping that the user clicks on "continue anyway" whenever a TLS error pops up.

On another note, this would relate to local attackers only right? If a router has been pwned remotely, it wouldn't matter whether the last mile is a twisted pair or air.
by squirrellous | 2025-10-09 05:17:45+00:00
I probably should’ve qualified the “best medium” with something more specific. But I’ll submit two reasons why email is best for me and maybe some others:

- Email is the one thing that isn’t tied to any platform and ~always works, so it’s worth it to put in some effort into managing subscriptions / filters / labels / etc knowing that they will pay off indefinitely.

- It’s nice to consume content in the original format intended by the author, so I prefer receiving an article link in the email with a preview, and clicking through to read it. A dedicated reader invariably has problems rendering non-text content and doesn’t have all the features of a browser.
by wtallis | 2025-10-09 05:19:01+00:00
uv provides a breadth of functionality that no single tool has before, and that no simple, easy combination of tools has before. For developers, it replaces poetry with something much faster and more reliable, and replaces pipenv. For end users, it replaces pipx and pyenv, and pretty much replaces pip itself (which no longer wants to be used by end users). And most importantly, uv relieves you of having to remember which of the preceding tools are suitable for which use cases.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-09 05:19:39+00:00
Think about a Reddit mod's incentives.

They:

- Don't get paid

- Spend time having to do some really thankless work

- Don't really have a regular work schedule

So what kind of person is going to do it?

Someone who is willing to do the work for no pay. For smaller subreddits and areas where the work of moderation isn't that heavy, you'll find passionate individuals.

Mods that moderate more time consuming content or the power mods modding many subs are chasing some other incentive. For some that means explicitly monetizing their time by pushing products and companies who pay them. For others it's the ideological satisfaction of pushing viewpoints they want pushed and suppressing viewpoints they want suppressed. For some it's prestige. For most it's probably some mix of all three.

What's absent is any incentive to surface organic, human content. That's merely a side effect of what mods do, not their main job.
by vintermann | 2025-10-09 05:20:34+00:00
Reddit does have global rules about deceptive content manipulation (e.g. voting rings, bot farms etc.)

If this guy had disclosed his conflict of interest, he would just have been an obsessed crank and even as a moderator, that's his right. But when he didn't, I'd say it was large-scale manipulation, and it's clearly in Reddit's interest to not allow this sort of thing (especially now that they're selling all their data to AI companies).
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-09 05:20:54+00:00
> A second controller can be purchased separately and will include a dongle to connect it to the original console.

This is a fascinating feature .. so the new controller can be used on older Vectrex(es)? Nice!

I sure look forward to seeing new Vectrex titles released once the Vectrex Mini hits the scene and lands in the right hackers’ hands. Will there be some kind of open SDK or something, for this purpose - anyone know?
by irjustin | 2025-10-09 05:20:59+00:00
Argh, there isn't one - is the message we're trying to get you to accept.

Just because reddit is reliable vs its peers != absolutely reliable.

Like Amazon, Yelp, Google any review system will become gamified for money. So just like those platforms every review you read you need to ask "who is the reviewer? do they review other things? how 'realistic' does it read? Are they pushing anything? Is the thing i'm reading affected by money? Were they given a product? were they given a discount/kickback for a review?" etc etc.

You cannot simply look at a review and say oh yeah that's a good review of someone who just wants to help others.

The whole reason this thread exists is exactly because of above. Someone weaponized the trust, your trust, of reddit to bring down a startup - and it worked.
by Anduia | 2025-10-09 05:22:11+00:00
Discord uses Zendesk (1). However in the press release they don't name the third party that was compromised, and Zendesk denies that it was their service.

What other third party was Discord using if not Zendesk? Who's reputation are they protecting?

[1] https://www.zendesk.fr/customer/discord/
by BrenBarn | 2025-10-09 05:24:11+00:00
It's rather surprising how the article just glosses over the whole issue of enforcement. It goes from "can't you just pass laws" to "well it's about social expectations". Well, what about "can't you just pass laws and then enforce them"? Of course it can be argued that enforcement is itself a social action, but then so is the actual passing of the law. It seems like if you want to push back against the social trend you're going to have to bite the bullet and do things people don't like.

And then later it says an example of a success story is Rwanda, which "tied anti-corruption to national identity through campaigns, while backing it with strict audits and high-profile prosecutions". That sounds like enforcement to me. . .

The idea of informing people that corruption is less widespread than they think seems like a rather weak approach to me. What if it's actually more widespread than they think? Does that mean it's then okay to do more of it?

This isn't to say that social expectations don't matter, but to me a basic characteristic of law is that it's prescriptive rather than descriptive, and a basic characteristic of ethics is that how things should be is a separate question from how things are (oughts aren't ises). Part of what it means to make a change is to make a commitment to do something because you believe it is what you should do, even if it is not how other people do things and isn't what would be easiest.
by kjs3 | 2025-10-09 05:24:36+00:00
I know of THREE people

Well That Settles It. /sarcasm

P.S. - quit saying there are some missing pieces in the story until you are going to fill in the rest of the story. You keep saying it, and you are pegging to 11 the bullshit meter of people (like me) who never heard of you or your company (which I won't get near with a 10m pole next time training budget is on the table) or the companies you clearly tried targeted.

P.P.S. - Get a media consultant. Seriously, you suck at this.
by laughing_man | 2025-10-09 05:24:41+00:00
Agreed on the safety. I can't tell how safe a car is by looking at it, so I'm all for government minimums in that area.

I'm not convinced CAFE is the way to go for fuel efficiency. The obvious thing to do is put some kind of levy on the expected total emissions of the vehicle over its lifetime, regardless of size, which would encourage people to buy cars no larger than their needs dictate. The current system seems inefficient.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-09 05:24:51+00:00
> Anyone who isn't involved in HFT should be in favor of rules that slow down trades to human time scales

What are you basing this on?

I’m a former algorithmic market maker. Every plan to “slow down trades to human time scales” I’ve seen were trivially gameable. They were always proposed by a group of concerned citizens, and then jumped on by my bosses, because if the market is slowed down to pre-HFT speeds, Wall Street can make pre-HFT profits on risk-free trading again.

Do you think the internet would work better if we forcibly increased latency? If we did, if the argument were this would flatten the market and better let small websites compete with CDNs, do you think that would actually happen? Google and Cloudflare would say “oh well,” and disassemble their servers?

Our markets have structural problems. They are mostly solvable. HFT is none of them, which is why you keep hearing about it from folks who don’t want reform.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-09 05:25:05+00:00
> Perhaps Texas could use a different trading model that doesn't require ultra high speed trading.

Benefits of high-frequency trading:

- Increased liquidity: improves market liquidity by ensuring there are always buyers and sellers

- Tighter bid-ask spreads: High-volume trading can narrow the spread between buying and selling prices, which can lower costs for investor

- Efficient price discovery: By reacting instantly to news and other data, HFT can help incorporate new information into a stock's price more quickly.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-10-09 05:26:00+00:00
First of all, 1 dev _producing_ at 10x pace is a myth.

But second of all, companies do not need to 10x their software production output. Rather the goal, if the 10x productivity is achieved, is to _reduce_ human labor while retaining desired levels of output.

If ultimately you're replacing humans with AI agents, you're exchanging one value for another.
by ahf8Aithaex7Nai | 2025-10-09 05:27:41+00:00
It's not that simple. It's true that a willingness to criticize and falsify established assumptions and skepticism toward arguments based on authority are part of the scientific ethos. It's also true that many scientists simply do what they've been taught to do, without questioning methods or taking an interest in the philosophy of science. But your last sentence is so sweeping that it would allow flat-earthers to be considered scientists and intellectuals.

What is being criticized here is an attitude that believes one is the only one capable of critical thinking and that everyone else is just an idiot who is already overwhelmed by the task of tying their shoelaces in the morning. This is simply arrogance and has little to do with constructiveness, let alone scientific ethos. You treat yourself to that little dopamine rush of saying “ackchyually” and then just carry on playing Bubble Shooter on your phone.

This is very common here on HN. And when this ultimately hardens into blanket skepticism toward institutions, you are closer to the flat-earthers than to the scientists.
by Montymio | 2025-10-09 05:28:11+00:00
Here’s why i think you do it— it’s because if Codesmith can do what it says it does, which it clearly can from everything I see, and which would make them a direct competitor to Formation, then you and Formation benefit by either, a) talking them out of Codesmith indirectly by bashing Codesmith relentlessly on reddit and creating a haze of doubt, or more likely maybe— b) you create self doubt for Codesmith grads so that they’ll then feel like they need Formation somehow. In other words, your near daily posts on reddit help turn Codesmith grads in a sales funnel for formation. Either way, it’s gross behavior.
by ekropotin | 2025-10-09 05:29:28+00:00
I bought a thing as a solution for exactly same problem. Don’t want to tell a specific brand, because IDK if it’s allowed here. Essentially they send you a physical device with NFC inside. You use their app to put a phone in distraction free mode and the only way to unblock it is to tap the object. It helped me a lot with my social media addiction. Probably, the best investment I ever made.
by Rohansi | 2025-10-09 05:29:49+00:00
> provide better long-term compatibility than many native games

This is one of the big, but less obvious, benefits to Wine/Proton. Games with native Linux builds run into all kinds of distro-specific issues that you don't really get on Windows. It's an issue for new games and an even worse issue for older games that aren't being updated anymore. Just look at Steam on macOS to see how big of an issue this is - so many games are not compatible on the latest Macs because they were built for x86 (32-bit).
by andsoitis | 2025-10-09 05:29:50+00:00
Meteors contain various heavy metals, primarily iron and nickel, which form metallic cores of asteroids and make up the bulk of many meteorites.

They also contain other siderophilic metals, including cobalt, chromium, gold, platinum, iridium, and tungsten. The high concentration of these metals, especially precious metals like gold and platinum, is due to their affinity for sinking to the core of early planets and asteroids, which are remnants of the primordial solar system.
by lambda | 2025-10-09 05:30:26+00:00
It's incoherent. It simply makes no sense at all that Ghislaine Maxwell, a wealthy socialite, would post a bunch of stuff on Reddit for years to accumulate meaningless internet points, under something based on her own name, while somehow also trying to be anonymous.

This is a simply incoherent theory. There's no sense in it. You don't post "anonymously" under your own name.

This goes into far more detail on the individual claims from the original conspiracy theory: https://coagulopath.com/ghislaine-maxwell-does-not-have-a-se...

But it really doesn't take this much detail to realize that this conspiracy theory is incoherent, at a surface level it just makes no sense at all.

The entirety of the "evidence" is standard conspiracy stuff, of making vague generalizations, bad interpretations, cherry picking data, etc.

I can't believe people are this gullible.
by collingreen | 2025-10-09 05:31:12+00:00
Most people have only interacted with a late stage of the internet already sewed up into walled gardens.

I don't know if it will work but it would be nice to show folks what the alternatives might be, examples of your ideal internet, instead of insult a generation of folks who don't know what a forum or a bulletin board or a blogroll is.

The stuff you miss is still out there. You can do good by sharing it with those who don't know what they are missing.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-09 05:31:29+00:00
> And it's also been widely known for that long that Reddit is an influential venue in which to take over a corner -- for marketing or propaganda.

Capturing moderation of a subreddit has long been a strategy of marketing agencies.

Even when they can’t take over the actual mod positions, they’ll shower the mods with free product and make them feel like a VIP. I watched this happen from inside one company and I couldn’t believe how easily the marketing team turned a mod into our biggest advocate by sending free products to them from time to time.

> A bad actor mod of a popular subreddit can persist for years, visibly, without people managing either to oust the mod, or to take down the sub's influence.

In some of the subreddits I followed, the remaining subreddit users felt some relationship with the mods over time and felt they were on the same side. There are subreddits like /r/nootropics where many users don’t realize the mod team has been captured by a supplement company (Nootropics Depot) and that they have a history of deleting some posts critical of Nootropics Depot. You would think this would be grounds for a subreddit riot, yet whenever I check it feels like everyone there is fans of Nootropics Depot and therefore they get a pass. Note that the quality of the science discussed on /r/nootropics is generally terrible and of very poor quality in recent years, which is certainly a related factor. It’s also not hard to find comments in other subreddits from people who were banned from /r/nootropics.

I think this happens across a lot of subreddits. Moderators find reasons to ban the dissenters and shape the conversation until the hive mind consensus favors the mods, so any issues aren’t discussed. People who object are banned for different reasons and minor infractions, then get tired of Reddit and move on. What remains is captured by companies pushing their products to an audience who thinks the mods are doing them a favor.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-09 05:31:51+00:00
As someone who grew up with these machines back in the day, there was something very magical about having a Vectrex near ones bed, all the lights off, and being able to play as much “Asteroids”, “Battlezone”, or “Tempest” as one could handle without requiring a bag full of coins for the pleasure. I fondly recall the nights spent this way, waking up at 3am with the Vectrex splash screen still burning its way into my retina.

That crazy glow was just so sci-fi for us kids back then. Some of us only had Game & Watch (LCD cells) to play with - the rich kids with their Vectrex were constant subjects of envy among us nerd kids.

I was lucky enough to get a microcomputer for one of my teenage birthdays - my rich neighbor had a Vectrex. We both kind of tired of our respective systems and on occasion would swap for the weekend .. it was great to have some actual games to play, and my friend enjoyed learning to program on my Oric-1 (which had a distinct lack of titles, at least in my neck of the woods back then ..)
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-09 05:31:58+00:00
What sort of interesting things do you think you're missing that are better served by AI summaries? Not saying it's a bad idea, but I already have ~all notifications turned off on my phone because I got tired of the attention arms race.

Feels like I should be able to just browse the top of Reddit once a week and get the gist of what's happened, or limit my YouTube to a weekly "All In" podcast to get the interesting highlights, etc.