MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lm28469 | 2025-10-13 21:59:03+00:00
Disable fingerprint unlock, add a long password, airplane mode unless you actively want to check something, &c. Add as many barriers as possible so that by the time you get through you either forgot why you came for or realised it's not that important

I don't think there are alternatives to what modern phones can do, unless you want to carry multiple dumb devices around (ebook + GPS + mp3 player for example)
by more_corn | 2025-10-13 21:59:28+00:00
Pretty sure the stagnation has a cause beginning in 2025 and that has to do with things like: Canada refusing to buy ALL American liquor in retaliation. China refusing to buy ANY soy beans in retaliation. In retaliation for what you might ask? I leave that as an exercise for the reader. If you are unable to answer that question honestly to yourself you need to seriously consider that your cognitive bias might be preventing you from thinking clearly.
by k310 | 2025-10-13 21:59:56+00:00
What the hell does this mean for open source software and even enterprise software? Must we all build from source? And if I need to start "Black Market Linux" who will join me?

I've read this and it bamboozles me (IANAL) and I don't see a size threshold, nor a floor, as in "free". IMNSHO, overreaching, without limits.

And when kids are writing vibe apps, will they be nailed for $2500+?
by BeetleB | 2025-10-13 22:00:21+00:00
Eh?

Looking at, say, wind energy, the top 4 states are all red states. Their cumulative amount handily is more than the next so many states.

That's absolute energy. If you want to go by percentage of energy that is wind, it's the same - the top 4 are red states. In fact, 7 of the top 10 are:

https://www.chooseenergy.com/data-center/wind-generation-by-...

I haven't looked at solar, but it doesn't seem there's a clear divide.
by Avamander | 2025-10-13 22:00:55+00:00
Some countries turned it into a part of their national ID system. Has worked great for the past 15 years. You can get a card reader for less than 20€. Works under any OS really. I can't remember the last time I got physical mail that wasn't some item I ordered.

S/MIME died because it is in many ways worse than CDOC and ASiC-E containers over email. People are reviving such approaches with EIDAS2 and from that ERDS (Electronic Registered Delivery Service). But there are no EU-wide implementations as of yet.

Those app-based approaches have also appeared, because well, they don't require a card reader. Though I'd rather see something NFC-based with a physical card. I personally find phone vendors' HSMs (and their equivalents) haven't seen enough scrutiny. Plus the apps are proprietary.

The demand is definitely there, but I predict it'll take at least a decade for the rest of the EU to catching up to Estonia, Finland and a few others. Just 25 years later.
by water-data-dude | 2025-10-13 22:01:26+00:00
Don't forget the third camp who just really like OLD jeeps!

Somewhere in the ballpark of a week ago there was a car show near where I walk my dog (some charity event). Overall not that interesting - there were a lot of flashy low riders with the crazy hydraulics and stuff - but there was also this really cool jeep truck-thing from sometime in the 1950's, a Jeep Forward Control[0]. They had pics of it when they first got it, absolute rusty mess! But goddamn, I'm not even a car guy and I was impressed. Labor of love.

Then my cousin has a more modern Jeep and lemme tell you: not great. I wonder what happened to that company? Garden variety enshittification, or is there an interesting story there?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_Forward_Control
by skydhash | 2025-10-13 22:01:36+00:00
The issue is with cross platform package management without proper hooks for the platform themselves. That may be ok if the library is pure, but as soon as you have bindings to another ecosystem (C/C++ in most cases), then it should be user/configurable instead of the provider doing the configuration with post installs scripts and other hacky stuff.

If you look at most projects in the C world, they only provide the list of dependencies and some build config Makefile/Meson/Cmake/... But the latter is more of a sample and if your platform is not common or differs from the developer, you have the option to modify it (which is what most distros and port systems do).

But good luck doing that with the sprawling tree of modern packages managers. Where there's multiple copies of the same libraries inside the same project just because.
by hinkley | 2025-10-13 22:02:06+00:00
He was known more for antiseptics but the biggest surgery moment for me will always be “using soap” and I wonder what the software equivalent is.

Like I said we are still young, so it feels sort of arrogant saying we have figured something out when I know how many things are industry standard now that almost resulted in shouting matches trying to get done even 20 years ago. Maybe our soap moment is coming up ten years from now.

But I suspect automated testing may be the wash your hands, because it represents a sort of hygiene that “we” used to just say fuck it or make a minimal effort.
by simonw | 2025-10-13 22:02:44+00:00
I don't think so. Training on documents is not a great way of building a search engine for those for the information in those documents, because the training process mixes all of that information together in ways that detach the individual words from the source documents they came from.

As usual, if you want an LLM to be able to help search a corpus of text the best way to achieve that is to teach it how to use a search tool against that text.
by zippyman55 | 2025-10-13 22:04:13+00:00
I'm wondering if residential homes will go off grid just to save on money. I have more than one residence and the costs to manage the places that I am away from is not insignificant. Just the power connection and minimal costs to keep basic heat and electricity is _costly_. With modern electronics and minor solar hookups, I could see a trend to disconnect from the grid.
by paulo20223 | 2025-10-13 22:04:18+00:00
I'm working on TenZorro: https://tenzorro.com — a media platform of practical case studies for content creators, developers, and marketers. The focus is on reproducible cases with step-by-step pipelines, prompts, and quality and cost metrics so you can quickly replicate results and adapt them to your tasks.

Currently:

Author profiles and case collections with tags/tools.

Prompt and workflow templates, built-in playgrounds with versioning.

Search by tasks and tools, drafts and publications.

Next on the roadmap:

Smart marketing prompt-apps for media: monetization, ratings, A/B metrics, cost/quality.

Auto-generation of wrappers for different LLM providers and presets for editorial workflows.

Forks and case collaborations, reproducibility analytics.
by jackpirate | 2025-10-13 22:05:16+00:00
Why not have a conversation instead of downvoting. What did I say is wrong?

Your second paragraph is implying that the half of Americans who voted for Trump are "bad Americans". That seems to be sowing the division that your first paragraph warns against (even if it is a reason to dislike Trump).

I don't think either democrats or republicans can claim the moral high ground about sowing division.
by jawiggins | 2025-10-13 22:05:17+00:00
1. Bloomberg Businessweek — “Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?” (Cover Story, Oct 2021) — a deep investigation into Tether’s backing, counterparties, and leadership. www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-mystery-where-s-the-69-billion-backing-the-stablecoin-tether

2. Wall Street Journal — “Cantor Fitzgerald Helps Oversee Tether’s Billions in Treasurys” — on who holds and manages a large chunk of Tether’s reserves. https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/wall-street-firm-over...

3. CoinDesk — “Tether’s banking relationships & commercial paper exposure in newly released NYAG docs” — FOIL-sourced documents on what sat inside reserves. https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/06/16/tethers-banking-r...

4. CFTC (primary source) — 2021 order fining Tether over reserve claims — official enforcement record on “fully backed” statements. https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8450-21
by mgh95 | 2025-10-13 22:05:35+00:00
> You can call it Economic nationalism all you want, but these are similar principles that were applied in authoritarian states like in Fascist/Nazi times.

Simply because economic nationalism is a characteristic of authoritarian state and has been a characteristic of fascist (Italian fascism, especially) and Nazis does not imply economic nationalism is intrinsically authoritarian fascist.

America for much of its history was protectionist. Europe remains a bloc intended to protect local industries characteristic of national identity, for example the rejection of Mercosur by the French. India seeks to grow its domestic titans and shut out foreign firms while purchasing abroad through activities such as the ArcelorMittal acquisition.

Economic nationalism is very much its own independent theme.
by XorNot | 2025-10-13 22:06:19+00:00
That actually is exactly how it works today with ESPHome flashed to the Tuya related chips. It's also the only way to do OTA: download into second partition, switch boot.

But more widely: you just don't need to flash devices very often.

Moreover OTA is just because that's something we used to be able to do till Tuya shutdown the cloud cutter hack which could do it (which also requires physical access - you have to reboot the device into flashing mode, you can still do it but you can't custom flash anymore OTA on most newer ones).
by bryan2 | 2025-10-13 22:06:57+00:00
I think you’re conflating intuitional alarms Gavin de Becker style with treating people as individuals which is two very different things. Racism is about our society treating people of color fairly whereas the other is about maintaining healthy boundaries and respecting your intuition.

I think this is a nuclear bad not only because I think it excuses bad behavior but also because I think it’s just intellectually lazy.

If I’m misinterpreting you please let me know because I hope I’m mistaken.
by vacuity | 2025-10-13 22:07:23+00:00
I agree with your general premise, in that there are bad actors, and appearance is a powerful classifier, so identifying potential bad actors by appearance is genuinely useful. I think there are many caveats in practice, such as:

How do I demonstrate that I arrived at a conclusion reasonably, with data? How do I calibrate my probabilities, instead of a binary "safe or unsafe"? How do I keep from overanalyzing appearance and making incorrect perceptions? I think the primary sign of danger in your example is being in a dark alley.

Moreover, learning danger where there is danger is valuable, but so is unlearning danger where there isn't danger. And then there are the errors of learning danger where there isn't danger, and unlearning danger where there is danger. So, I take your point broadly, but there are many demons this way.
by asdff | 2025-10-13 22:07:50+00:00
It is amazing to me how dogshit the reddit mobile experience is. Some comments load, others don't. Will the child comments load? Who knows. Is this ordered in any way? How about 5 links you don't care about instead of the discussion thread you clicked on.

old.reddit.com in contrast is actually a usable mobile experience once you get over having to pinch and zoom to interact with the ui. Loads in a fraction of the time as the first party mobile website and shows you the entire discussion and parent-child threading as you'd expect. No nondeterministic behavior.
by vayup | 2025-10-13 22:07:57+00:00
> now Google has stopped providing device trees for the newer ones which I therefore won't buy

Yeah, that sucks. I don't know if they made any official statement on that. I hope they will continue releasing device trees. It's a feather in their cap that the best mobile device to use for de-Googling so far was a Pixel device (with alt OSes). I hope they won't lose that distinction.
by m463 | 2025-10-13 22:08:42+00:00
it also talks about using a VPN and what ports to open in a firewall.

I don't know how it handles the harder part, the "device on internet" talks to "device in my house"

most phones and apps use this "harder part" to interpose their corporate server for more than TURN/STUN and continue to "collect all the data" or "insert a subscription"
by j45 | 2025-10-13 22:09:22+00:00
BBM was the iMessage and WhatsApp before either of those.

WhatsApp became popular specifically because it was a multi-platform replacement for BBM.

BBM had little else to offer in terms of apps. It was a corporate ecosystem and good at that part of it.

iMessage also came out after BBM, and did their own device lock in, except iPhones were designed for the many instead of the few, especially beginners to smartphones.
by hinkley | 2025-10-13 22:09:27+00:00
Yeah the time before that when I encountered such a picker, someone was trying to recycle mixed plastics by chopping them up and the somehow with cameras they could see which plastic type it was. I’m sure they were using more than visible light to accomplish that.

Sadly haven’t heard much since so I don’t know if they are still around, if it didn’t work at all or if they just couldn’t make it cheap enough. I don’t recall the name of the group. One is mentioned in your link and they achieves 98% purity, which may not be sufficient for industrial use.
by kmoser | 2025-10-13 22:09:41+00:00
Serious question: do people who work with these config files frequently, or on large such files, use simple text editors, or are there "smart" editors that do things like prevent you from making typos or inserting the wrong data type, similar to an HTML form that does basic validation or a DB schema that rejects bad data?

There is no single cure-all, of course, but surely we should be relying on computers to do much of the heavy lifting when it comes to validation and verification of these files, not just as linters after the fact but in realtime while we're editing, and with some sort of knowledge (even if derived programmatically) of what is right and what is wrong so we no longer have to worry about simple footguns.
by jawiggins | 2025-10-13 22:10:24+00:00
A reasonably common belief among people who have studied the issue is that Tether was at one point unbacked (see NY AG report), and likely fudged their numbers a bit through the use of corperate paper which was plausibly worth $1 but practically could be bought for less than $1, but they have since made enough through various investments that they could now plausibly be fully backed.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-13 22:10:34+00:00
Gotta remember that the car radio has always been a cheap gimme.

Not really. Some of the hardware that you could get in the 1950s-1970s timeframe was great. Heavy chrome knobs and bezels, permeability-tuned front ends with separate RF stages... electromechanical mechanisms that seemed like witchcraft when I took them apart as a kid, and would still be cool to play with today.
by adabyron | 2025-10-13 22:11:33+00:00
Interesting that just sharing a link of the trade-offs got a bunch of down votes when I didn't even take a side.

Maybe it was a misunderstanding of my intentions to purely share information based on your reply.

If you don't mind, please help me understand. Did it come across as anti-solar in general? That's how I'm interpreting your reply.

The article, which I wonder if anyone read, argues local environmental concerns based on the giant size of the solar farm. One of those things was mountain sheep that migrate across the lands. This would be creating a wall of sorts. Another was Native American archeology. What I'm ignorant of is if any of these issues were addressed at all & what the impact is.

In a general sense, I'm a huge fan of solar farms. I think they make more sense than using land to plant corn for energy, which funny enough also got me down votes here.
by alphazard | 2025-10-13 22:11:55+00:00
A non-intuitive consequence of this thesis is that the so called "parallel career ladder" doesn't work.

For those unfamiliar, I'm referring to the idea that managers can have roles and levels which are separate but equal from the levels that convey technical expertise. If the people who control the team structure don't also have the expertise to maintain an architectural vision for the product system, then the product is doomed to match the slow moving trends of office politics, instead of matching the current thinking of the technical leaders.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-10-13 22:11:56+00:00
Nice explainer for someone wanting a brain dump for analog (film) cameras.

I am old enough to have grown up with film. I learned to use a darkroom when I was in 5th grade. I used one again in middle school, high school. I even worked at a "1-Hour Photo" out of high school.

But my cameras were typically the Instamatic™ kind. My mom had a Canon AE/1 and borrowing it from time to time was my only experience with a "real" film camera.

I was at Apple, working in fact on the ColorSync team when cameras went digital. I didn't throw the kind of money some of my coworkers did at the early entries into digital from Nikon, Canon, but I dabbled in it.

But it was when my daughters, born very much in the digital camera era, started to show an interest in film cameras that I also dove into them again. This time I could learn about film cameras on the internet, could by film cameras on eBay. My disposable income meant I could get some decent hardware — and then of course it was a lot less expensive than when it was new because it was used, "obsolete".

I learned at last about "medium format" and was able to get into it with a surprisingly modest amount of cash. A Yashica 635 for example was a fine medium format camera and fairly inexpensive on eBay. Often there are sellers from Japan that seem to give you an honest assessment of the camera they are selling — I have rarely been disappointed.

120 film for medium format cameras is still readily available. Finding a place to develop it and make prints easy as well (in Omaha, Nebraska there is at least one store, thankfully). I even learned to develop my own B&W and color film (it's just a bit tedious though).

I confess though that once developed, I tend to take the digital path — scanning the photo digitally and then adjusting levels, etc. in the computer.

In any event, more than ever, I really got to learn the clever relationship between ISO, shutter speed and aperture — and appreciate them when going with film. I encourage everyone to try it.

A photo from the Yashica 635: https://imgur.com/BNdbzjC

Also Yashica 635: https://imgur.com/o4eYteG

Minolta Autocord: https://imgur.com/oQgXjW0

(Cameras get a little pricier from here down.)

Mamiya C220: https://imgur.com/nL9JjPl

Me (Mamiya RB7): https://imgur.com/Y49UxLQ

Bronica SQA: https://imgur.com/ZMJ3SGq
by GeekyBear | 2025-10-13 22:11:59+00:00
It's certainly possible for the same company to create an open platform in addition to a separate platform that is a walled garden.

Microsoft Windows is an open platform that is open to running whatever software you want, while Xbox is a walled garden.

That doesn't mean that Google can fraudulently market an open platform and then close it after driving competing platforms out of the market without running afoul of antitrust law.

However, if Google wants to create a new platform that is a walled garden, as long as they are honest with users about what they are selling, that would be perfectly legal everywhere except the EU.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-13 22:12:07+00:00
I understand what you're saying, and I'm a fan of SEL4. But isolation isn't one of the primary points of k8s.

Containerization is after all, as you mentioned, a plugin. As is network behavior. These are things that k8s doesn't have a strong opinion on beyond compliance with the required interface. You can switch container plugin and barely notice the difference. The job of k8s is to have control loops that manage fleets of resources.

That's why containers are called "containers". They're for shipping services around like containers on boats. Isolation, especially security isolation, isn't (or at least wasn't originally) the main idea.

You manage a fleet of machines and a fleet of apps. k8s is what orchestrates that. SEL4 is a microkernel -- it runs on a single machine. From the point of view of k8s, a single machine is disposable. From the point of view of SEL4, the machine is its whole world.

So while I see your point that SEL4 could be used on k8s nodes, it performs a very different function than k8s.
by skywhopper | 2025-10-13 22:12:12+00:00
HCL is generally great, but has some issues with clarity of transformation to the underlying data structures.

But anytime someone suggests TOML I have to double check to be sure they are serious because the TOML syntax for anything more complicated than single-layer maps is mind-bogglingly confusing to me. This is not a serious alternative to YAML.
by DaveZale | 2025-10-13 22:12:26+00:00
which editors should be fired? You mean the scientific journal editors?

As to the image, "The image shows two bright points, each representing a jet of high-energy particles emitted by one of the black holes. The black holes themselves remain invisible, but the image provides clear visual evidence of their position, motion, and dual existence. "

My best guess is that it took a few years to interpret the data. Frankly, I don't get the math. The numbers are so big! But I feel pretty small when considering this... and, of course, soon we'll hear of even more of these systems.

Do you think that gravitational lens effects will be studied when "the stars are aligned" for other studies?
by taeric | 2025-10-13 22:12:36+00:00
If your root cause is cross team, then you wind up having to make some implicit assumptions on what the other team could have done. Is akin to ending with "because the gods got angry." Not really actionable.

This is a classic "limit the scope of the feature." You want the document to be written and constrained to someone that is in a position to impact everything they talk about. If you think there was something more holistic, push for that, as well.

Note you can discuss what other teams are doing. But do that in a way that is strictly factual. And then ask why that led your team to the failure that your team owns.
by XorNot | 2025-10-13 22:12:50+00:00
Signal desperately needs "Signal for Business".

Sell a way for businesses to send trusted communications to their customers in sensitive industries - i.e. healthcare would be a big one.

They need both an actual revenue stream, but also that sort of professional messaging can drive adoption which ultimately furthers the Signal mission.

Plus all those things could desperately use good secure messaging systems.
by egberts1 | 2025-10-13 22:13:26+00:00
Ive completed what is arguably the largest syntax highlighting: nftables v1.1.4 script file (and command script) for Vim/NeoVim.

Before that, I completed arguably the 2nd largest syntax highlighting: ISC Bind9 (most versions)

https://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-nftables

https://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-bind-named

My secret weapon was using a smaller highlighted syntax to project even faster completion of these larger syntax tree: EBNF

http://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-ebnf

The real magic trick is that I used S-expression to pull up all the first-encounter/deeply-nested keywords touched to its Vim syntax 'nextgroup=', and region block-offs.

Basically said, I complied complex EBNF into Vimscript zeal and need for pure-deterministic LL(1) syntax tree. (Vim regex is weird, must order by largest static pattern first to most wildly wildcard pattern lastly within single regex string).

Rainbow nest braces, command/statement/keyword/unit/integer coloring.

For my next trick, I need to determine which route to go next (maybe HN can help me here).

- JetBrain's properitary LSP

- VSCode textmate LSP?

- treesitter

- or something more LSP mainstream, if any.

Kinda disappointed that there is no holy grail for both syntax-highlighting and autocompletion.

Was looking forward to adding hint-hover as well.