MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by godelski | 2025-10-02 19:53:20+00:00
> identification via a phone number.

Identification of what? That you have a signal account?[0] I'll admit that that's not ideal but I'm unconvinced this is a big issue.

> an authoritarian governments too may take ownership of a number at any moment.

Suppose they did hijack the account. This would not give them the message history. You know that, right? It also kicks out the original owner, warning them they've been pwned.

Don't get me wrong, Signal has issues and we should be critical and hold them to high standards. BUT *they are only E2EE and low metadata Messenger that my grandma can use.* That's a big fucking deal. If we want secure communication to be common place we need to make sure it's usable. Sure, there's more secure and more private services, but none that my grandma could use.

I very much think signal should shift focus to privacy as they've got the security side pretty well handled (as this blog illustrates). But also these comments at the top of any signal thread feel a bit out of touch. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but there's a lot of people who confidently act like this compromises security or places harm on a user. The existence of a registered signal account means very little, especially as you note numbers can be spoofed. You need more than a number to hijack an account and hijacking only reveals messages moving forward while telling the compromised user they're compromised.

So can we focus on bigger issues? Can we critique while still recommending? I have no problem saying I have issues with signal and wish they did more while acknowledging that it is strongly my preferred means of contact and I try to convince others to talk to me that way. These things are not at odds. I've gone so far as donating to them several times because I use the service so much

[0] https://signal.org/bigbrother/
by Findecanor | 2025-10-02 19:53:41+00:00
Not necessarily lower density. On ARM you would often need cmp and csel, which are two instructions, eight bytes.

RISC-V has cmp-and-branch in a single instruction, which with c.mv normally makes six bytes. If the cmp-and-branch instruction tests one of x8..x15 against zero then that could also be a compressed instruction: making four bytes in total.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-02 19:54:07+00:00
To me, I want openai to release the Chatgpt 3 and chatgpt 3.5 as the phenomenal leap of intelligence and even I appreciated the Chatgpt 3 a lot, more so than even now like It had its quirks but it was such a good model man.

I remember forming a really simple dead simple sveltekit website during Chatgpt 3. It was good, it was mind blowing and I was proud of it.

The only interactivity was a button which would go from one color to other and it would then lead to a pdf.

If I am going to be honest, the UI was genuinely good. It was great tho and still gives me more nostalgia and good vibes than current models. Em-dashes weren't that common in Chatgpt 3 iirc but I have genuinely forgotten what it was like to talk to it
by yibg | 2025-10-02 19:54:24+00:00
I'm not sure why this is important to the discussion. The important question is: are people in Gaza starving or not? If they are, I couldn't care less what we did during WW2.

Secondarily, just because there was a guideline during WW2 that was deemed "the right way", it's the result that counts. Were people starving in Germany post WW2? If so that was wrong then too.
by dang | 2025-10-02 19:55:10+00:00
There's a big difference between making such a statement about a government vs. about an entire population. That ought to be obvious.

> I see far worse slurs about Israel and Jews here which remain unmoderated

There are many comments criticizing Israel (and many defending Israel), but comments slurring Jewish people in general are another matter and we crack down just as hard on those (see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377645).

We don't see every post on HN, but I don't believe there are many such comments going unmoderated, because readers are usually pretty quick to point them out to us. If you see a comment that should have been moderated but hasn't been (and certainly if you see one that is slurring an entire population), you can help by flagging it and emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

Also, the outright antisemitic comments I see are mostly by a small number of serial trolls, by which I mean troll accounts in a sequence n, n+1, n+2, ... where they create n+k+1 after we ban n+k. That tells me that these are mostly, if not entirely, fringe participants.

Edit: as a spot check, I just skimmed through all (live) comments from the last week that contain the word 'Jews'. I didn't see any slurs in there, and most seem to be from people defending Israel, arguing against antisemitism and so on.
by sunnyps | 2025-10-02 19:55:18+00:00
Republicans can end the filibuster in the Senate with a simple majority after which they can pass the funding bill with a simple majority. But of course, they won't do that since it opens up other bills to be passed with a simple majority too in the future. So it's not factual.

edit: This is what they would need to do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option
by abustamam | 2025-10-02 19:55:23+00:00
I heard a pitch by a company, its name escapes me, but it's like AirBnB for Muslims. The idea is to bring back the community aspect of hosting families, where values are aligned (ie you know that the cookware has never been used to cook bacon for example).

Households pay $200 a year, they get 2 credits. Each credit grants you a stay at another member's house. Anytime someone stays at your house, you earn a credit.

I think something like this, if it finds traction, is really cool. Of course, that probably means you probably wouldn't be able to use this network to stay in some random remote area, but if it's in a host happens to be in an area you want to stay in, it can be even cheaper than AirBnB.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-02 19:55:34+00:00
Ok, find a single international humanitarian organization active in Gaza that believes that Gazans are treated well. Or even a single one active in Gaza that is not saying that a blatant genocide is taking place.

And the "tentacles" are the heads of a hydra labeled "Imperialism", "Racism", "Extractivism", "Capitalism", "Patriarchy". Not sure how much clearer the imagery could get, and which part of this is antisemitic.
by nicoinstrument | 2025-10-02 19:55:47+00:00
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by jMyles | 2025-10-02 19:55:47+00:00
Bluegrass is a highly technical, musically complex, urban form of Appalachian country music. It is distinct for sharing the rhythm among stringed instruments (stemming from the constraint that the trip down from the mountains into the cities - usually conducted by freight trains and pickup trucks - did not afford the transport of a drum kit).

At its core is a corpus of traditional songs which have been handed down across generations, especially Irish fiddle tunes and West African banjo music.

The concepts of digital freedom trace multiple clear lineages to this tradition of music. For example, John Perry Barlow, who founded The Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Freedom of The Press Foundation, and participated heavily in discussions on The WELL which laid the cryptological groundwork that eventually became blockchains, was a member of The Grateful Dead (who, while more of a rock or country band than a traditional string band, stewarded and celebrated this corpus of music across several decades) and was himself an aficionado of the history of IP-unencumbered music.

If you see the word "Traditional" on a bluegrass setlist (usually listed next to a song where an author normally goes), it effectively means "I assert that this song is not subject to intellectual property."
by schwartzworld | 2025-10-02 19:56:17+00:00
If the art is wholly ai, I agree with you, you are no artist. Similarly, if you outsourced 100% of the creative act to hired help, I would say the same.

But most people can’t do everything. How would you view art where the artist relies on AI for the pieces they can’t do? If I play guitar but an ai wrote the drum part, is that art? What if I write the book but ai made the illustrations?
by xooooogler | 2025-10-02 19:56:35+00:00
Google recently let go ALL -- EVERY SINGLE -- L3/L4/L5 UX Researcher

https://www.thevoiceofuser.com/google-clouds-cuts-and-the-bi...

Could it be argued that perhaps UX Research was not working at all? Or that their recommendations were not being incorporated? Or that things will get even worse now without them?
by re | 2025-10-02 19:56:39+00:00
There are also fans who record what happens in baseball games purely for their own enjoyment.

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1lzpwrq/reasons_i... / https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/68qdm9/people_who...
by borski | 2025-10-02 19:56:53+00:00
> I see friends' kids who read at 4 and they absolutely do not need to be stuck in a class with kids who still chew on their toys.

Its worse than that; putting them in that class forces them into a situation where their only options are abject boredom (which kills motivation, drive, creativity) or to act out, because it is at least better than being bored.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-02 19:57:08+00:00
They need 50 + Vance. They can change the rules for the funding vote to only require a simple majority, they've elected not to. If they did this, the shutdown would be over. Alternatively, since they're just 5 Democratic votes away they could have offered some compromise to sway a few more Democrats than they got (they only got two so far). They don't need to win the entire party over, just enough.
by mikeyouse | 2025-10-02 19:57:24+00:00
Whoever’s to blame (the party that controls all three branches), it’s still wildly inappropriate and illegal to put political messaging on Federal websites (www.hud.gov for one glaring example) and in email signatures.

> To summarize, you want to blame the oppositition for not passing your flavor of a spending bill, ie. one that suits your politics.

Seems a bit like projection when your summary is based on your weird assumption for who I would’ve blamed previously.

> Elections have consequences - and the longer Democrats drag this out the more excuse the executive branch will have to permanentely lay off people and shutdown departments.

That’s not how any of this works.. the Executive branch doesn’t have the constitutional ability to shut down departments or lay people off when they’re congressional mandated. This level of political science ignorance is a big part of how we got here.

Elections do have consequences and if Republicans feel that they have a mandate to kill USAID or any other department, they can pass a spending bill that zeroes it out. The President doesn’t get to decide to not spend those funds after Congress has authorized them.

It’s inconceivable to me that people don’t understand how much this line of thought and the associated actions have broken our government in ways that are going to be very difficult to undo.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-02 19:57:25+00:00
Sure, the entire thing is false and campaigning.

It is not true that Democrats blocked H.R.5371. The bill was voted on unlike say when Republicans block a bill by sending the representatives home instead of voting on say an Epstein related issue. (Recent vote was 55-45 [1] which not every R voted yay).

The lapse in appropriations cannot singular be pointed at H.R.5371.

If Republicans had stuck to their campaign promises of a balanced budget then we wouldn't be in this situation as we wouldn't need additional borrowing.

Less politically, if 60+ people had input into the bill then it would've passed. Can't be upset that somebody didn't vote for something they didn't have input in.

Only 50 votes are needed in the Senate to pass any legislation (per constitution). The whole 60-votes is a requirement that any point can be changed by the Senate and has been recently for federal judges.

[1]: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5371...
by Animats | 2025-10-02 19:57:52+00:00
China is way ahead here. There's now a Ministry of the Low Altitude Economy.[1] There's a Low Altitude Flight Service System, which is air traffic control for drones and flying cars. There are licenses for drone operators, categories of license, (advanced licenses require a flight exam), etc.

China hasn't had much general aviation. There are very few private aircraft. So there was nothing like the US's FAA Flight Service Stations. Plans to change that started in 2018, as a new design, mostly automated. That system also handles drones above 120 meters, or is supposed to.

[1] https://businessaviation.aero/evtol-news-and-electric-aircra...
by asdff | 2025-10-02 19:58:28+00:00
It is kind of interesting seeing the fear developers have over "everything in finance is on excel." It kind of reeks of armchairism where one assumes the worst immediately and assumes this assumption has somehow not been realized by the domain experts in this space who are in fact also smart spend all their time on the thing.

To an accountant, excel spreadsheet is a source of truth. There is no undetermined behavior. They can look at the calculations underlying the spreadsheet and understand what is happening, no different than a developer looking at source code. They do in fact have their own forms of unit tests considering these data are audited in a far more rigorous fashion than most any code that ships with unit tests.
Show HN: FauxSpark – An Apache Spark Simulator Using SimPy
by dadbod | 2025-10-02 19:58:46+00:00
Hi HN,

I've built FauxSpark. A discrete event simulation of Apache Spark, built with SimPy.

It's designed to let users experiment with and understand the runtime characteristics of Apache Spark workloads under different cluster configurations, failures & job schedules without spawning a real cluster.

In this initial version, FauxSpark implements a simplified version of Apache Spark which includes:

- DAG scheduling with stages, tasks, and dependencies

- Automatic retries of tasks & stages on executor failure

- Stage resubmission on shuffle-fetch failures

- Basic shuffle read (like really simple)

- Runs a single job at a time

- A simple CLI with a few knobs to configure cluster, simulate failures, scale up etc,.

Repo → https://github.com/fhalde/fauxspark

I'd appreciate your feedback and tips from anyone into discrete event simulation (DES).
by tptacek | 2025-10-02 19:59:06+00:00
Sure it could. Physician compensation, RVU billing, upcoding, and overdelivery aren't facts of nature. In fact, a lot of these problems are caused by Medicare regulation; we deliberately restrict the supply of physicians by underfunding residency slots, which is something the AMA lobbied to do.

But when institutions try to take these problems on, like when Blue Cross (IIRC) went after anaesthesiology upcoding abuses, industry lobbyists spin people up to think that insurers are demanding surgeons wake people up in the middle of operations. It's a real problem. People understand so little about how our system works that they will vociferously take the side of practitioners who are screwing them over.

(Everybody is screwing everybody over; I'm not taking a side, except to point out that Table 19 of the NHE makes a pretty stark statement about where the money is going.)
by layoric | 2025-10-02 19:59:12+00:00
> Unlike railroads and fibre, all the best compute in 2025 will be lacklustre in 2027.

I definitely don't think compute is anything like railroads and fibre, but I'm not so sure compute will continue it's efficiency gains of the past. Power consumption for these chips is climbing fast, lots of gains are from better hardware support for 8bit/4bit precision, I believe yields are getting harder to achieve as things get much smaller.

Betting against compute getting better/cheaper/faster is probably a bad idea, but fundamental improvements I think will be a lot slower over the next decade as shrinking gets a lot harder.
by diggan | 2025-10-02 19:59:19+00:00
> I would be so entertained if I found out an AI lab had wasted their time cheating on my dumb benchmark!

I don't think it's necessarily "cheating", it just happens as they're discovering and ingesting large ranges of content. A problem of public content, it's bound to be included sooner or later, directly or indirectly.

Nice to hear you're doing some sort of contingency though, and looking forward to the inevitable blog post announcing the change to a different bird and vehicle :)
by cogman10 | 2025-10-02 19:59:37+00:00
> TFA is saying that we should've been moving towards more categories with more nuance and detail, even back when we were at just 2 categories, not towards fewer categories with even less nuance, as the DSM-5 chose to do.

TFA explicitly says the opposite

> “The term ‘autism’ likely describes multiple conditions,” said Dr Varun Warrier, from Cambridge’s department of psychiatry, senior author of the research. “For the first time, we have found that earlier and later diagnosed autism have different underlying biological and developmental profiles.”

> The scientists are *not* advocating for a move towards two diagnostic categories, saying that this could be unhelpful for the many who fall somewhere in the middle.

> “It is a gradient,” said Warrier. “There are also many other factors that contribute to age of diagnosis, so the moment you go from averages to anything that is applicable to an individual, it’s false equivalency.”

The Nature article and the guardian article are both just saying that these are likely multiple genetic disorders with similar symptoms and treatments. Classifying and understanding them is useful valid research to do, nobody doing this research is suggesting that actually DSM 4 had it right.

These will split into different diagnoses if it's found that significant differences in treatments can yield better results. Otherwise, they are just going to call it autism. Much like, for example, we call uncontrolled tumor growth cancer even though it's really 1000 different diseases that all manifest the same way.
by lejalv | 2025-10-02 19:59:42+00:00
Good try.

But now, dear reader, just do as instructed and visit the links [0] and [1]. The comic imagery is not antisemitic. But a claim here to the contrary, and the fact that we don't have infinite time to check claims, might have fooled you, as it very nearly fooled me. Fortunately, I clicked and read by myself.
Show HN: Uber for Flights
by aravseth | 2025-10-02 19:59:44+00:00
My friend and I built BookMyFlight to finally modernize flight search + booking.

Why we built this:

- Personalization. I fly the same route every month, and there’s no platform that knows my preferences so that I can open it, find and book my flight, and close it within a minute.

- Booking is slow. I hate seeing a long clunky airline form each time I need to book. I want booking a flight to feel more like booking an Uber.

How it works:

1. Optionally make an account and save your traveler preferences. Personally, I've specified my routine route as SFO to CLE and that I only want red-eye direct flights for this route.

2. Search for flights using chat or the search panel. Chat feels especially time-saving when you have preferences saved (e.g. I just say “search my routine trip").

3. Once you find the flight you want, use the one-click book feature which books your flight directly with the airline. The first time you book a flight, you’ll have to fill out your traveler info, but you won't see that form after that.

Notes:

- Your booking is directly with the airline (this means when something goes wrong, you get direct support from the airline—not a third-party)

- You can add your rewards numbers for each airline to keep earning points/status

The ultimate goal is to create the best possible experience that every traveler wants, but that OTAs and airlines don’t care to create. Also very receptive to hearing pain points from frequent flyers; we think this space is really outdated and could use some innovation.

Try it out and let us know what you think :)
by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-02 19:59:46+00:00
> "The consensus among younger journalists is that we got it all wrong… We are the problem. Objectivity has got to go," The San Francisco Chronicle editor-in-chief Emilio Garcia-Ruiz similarly expressed. "They are willing to share their lived experiences to call out bulls---, despite their status in the newsroom. There can sometimes be a chasm between them and the older veteran reporters."

Also you might need to time box "olden times" considering what newspapers looked like before the 60s.
by mijoharas | 2025-10-02 19:59:48+00:00
Hey, first off, thanks.

How do you go about that? The documentation says:

Q. Can imapsync be used to maintain and restore a local offline copy of a mailbox, eg for backup purposes, using Mbox or Maildir format, so that if the server fails, then the mailbox could be reinstated?

R1. No. Imapsync plays with IMAP servers only.
by anthonypasq | 2025-10-02 20:00:28+00:00
im not sure that you read what i just said. Almost no one using chatgpt would care if they were still talking to gpt5 2 years from now. If compute per watt doubles in the next 2 years, then the cost of serving gpt5 just got cut in half. purely on the hardware side, not to mention we are getting better at making smaller models smarter.
by lapcat | 2025-10-02 20:00:33+00:00
I'm not sure what you expect. They're literally reporting what the administration said. Isn't that their job? Should they not report what the administration said?

> it sounds like some kind of serious disaster.

That feels like your own interpretation. The President himself seems to think it's not a disaster but rather a good outcome.

I think it's notable because a government shutdown does not require any firings. Federal workers are already going without pay during the shutdown, so the firings don't do anything to help.

Anyway, there's only so much that can go into a headline. If you read only the headlines and not the stories, you can't expect to get an accurate picture of anything.

> Also, why does it matter that federal workers lose their jobs?

Seriously?

> That happens to people all over the economy too

That doesn't make either one of those outcomes good.

In any case, CNN also reports on job loss numbers in the economy, even on the front page, just not today. Note that the CNN headlines are typically news from today. That's always the bias of the media: the "new" in "news". By the way, there's another, related story on the CNN front page, "Elizabeth Warren calls for Trump to release the jobs report despite shutdown".
by lifter3101 | 2025-10-02 20:00:56+00:00
The title says “don’t avoid politics”. Then the content says “what you think is politics is bad politics”, so instead the author suggests how to do good politics.

Let’s apply the same structure to another important area of human relations: marriage. “Don’t be in a bad marriage — here’s how a good marriage looks like”.

Sounds great as a writing exercise. Unclear how applicable it is in most of people’s real life circumstances.