MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by troupo | 2025-10-04 21:47:52+00:00
> In my mind, SCSS + CSS modules + maybe a processor tool is an rock solid and modern set of tech

"my set of non-standard tools and preprocessors is superior to these guys' non-standard tools and preprocessors" is not a good argument.

> I find this reluctance to enforcing guidelines weird

Because CSS doesn't lend itself to any enforcement. All the tools that appear around it includng those you like like SASS and "some processing" don't appear because people don't understand something or can't enforce something.

> Of course, all this is under the hindsight knowledge that HTML and CSS have evolved in recent years to be truly powerful and versatile.

Indeed. And many of these features have been made available across all major browsers only in the past two or so years.

No one is going to rewrite everything from SASS or CSS-in-JS just because some features now exist in vanilla CSS.
by roadbuster | 2025-10-04 21:49:51+00:00
> I am pretty damn sure that with a thousand me, we produce more than the founders alone

Engineers generally never acknowledge the value of knowing _what_ to build, only whether something is built.

As an engineer, I don't pretend to know or understand what the market wants or what people are willing to pay for. That's a problem I leave to business/product-oriented people. In exchange, they leave the building to me.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-04 21:50:05+00:00
Yes indeed this is clearly delineated in the GENIUS Act regulating Stablecoins:

> Issuers would be subject to the Bank Secrecy Act, and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) would be required to write tailored anti-money-laundering (AML) rules. S. 1582 would require that FinCEN facilitate "novel methods … to detect illicit activity involving digital assets." S. 1582 would require issuers to certify that they have implemented AML and sanctions compliance programs. The bill would prohibit anyone who has been convicted of certain financial crimes of being an officer or director of an issuer.

OFAC compliance is a regular thing in Internet companies. AWS and Cloudflare maintain blocklists designed to help other companies stay OFAC compliant and agree with US sanctions lists. These are all well-known.
by gyomu | 2025-10-04 21:50:24+00:00
Young users without payment methods do not sideload binaries on a Nintendo DS.

If you’re hacking with a Nintendo DS in 2025 you were most likely a teenager in the 2000s/early 2010s, and you most certainly have a payment method.

Agree that OP is underselling their work at $5 - the next big psychological barrier after $0.99 is at $9.99, might as well go there
by jltsiren | 2025-10-04 21:50:32+00:00
This claim makes no sense.

Academic salaries are higher in the US than in most other countries. But they are also unusually low relative to the cost of living and industry salaries. In many meaningful ways (such as home ownership), American academics enjoy a lower standard of living than their colleagues in Europe.

Moving to another country is a huge sacrifice and involves significant risks. Most people, including most academics, are not particularly motivated by high incomes. What they seek instead is stability. And that used to be the main reason why American universities were able to lure PhDs from other wealthy countries.

Because academic salaries are unusually low in the US relative to the alternatives, there is less competition for academic jobs and grants. If you take the subset of academics who are willing to move to another country, they are more likely to find a permanent position in the US than elsewhere. Less competition means that any particular candidate is more likely to be the top one for any particular position.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-04 21:51:09+00:00
> Stablecoins are a potentially huge vector for this kind of badness, so it would be unwise for Cloudflare to try to yolo this (but they probably will, because almost all tech companies try to work with finance this way).

Do you have any proof for this assertion or is it time to milk crypto cynicism for upvotes on this site again? The GENIUS Act (which regulates stablecoins) specifically calls out complying with AML and sanctions lists. So there's a clear regulatory regime.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-04 21:51:11+00:00
I'm not convinced that on average Zig is any less safe, or produces software that is any less stable, then Rust.

Zig embraces reality in its design. Allocation exist, hardware exists, our entire modern infrastructure is built on C. When you start to work directly with those things, there is going to be safety issues. That's just how it is. Zig tries to give you as many tools as possible to make good decisions at every turn, and help you catch mistakes. Like it's testing allocator detecting memory leaks.

Rust puts you in a box, where the outside world doesn't exist. As long as you play by its rules everything will be fine. But it eventually has to deal with this stuff, so it has unsafe. I suspect if Rust programmers went digging through all their dependencies, especially when they are working on low level stuff, they would be surprised by how much of it actually exists.

Zig tried to be more safe on average and make developers aware if pitfalls. Rust tried to be 100% safe where it can, and then not safe at all where it can't. Obviously Rusts approach has worked for it, but I don't think that invalidates Zigs. Especially when you start to get into projects where a lot of unsafe operations are needed.

Zig also has an advantage in that it simplifies memory management through its use of allocators. If you read Richard Feldman's write up on the Roc compilers rewtire in Zig, he talks about how he realized their memory allocation patterns were simple enough in Zig that they just didn't need the complexity of Rust.
by tptacek | 2025-10-04 21:51:25+00:00
It's luxury to suggest that street and property crime should take a backburner to whatever your issues are, because you are (demographically speaking; I have no idea who you are personally) (1) much less likely to experience street and property crime than someone in a low-income neighborhood and (2) much more able to metabolize the impacts of those crimes.

The whole thing is silly; it isn't the job of municipal police to investigate price collusion and corruption in the first place. You might just as meaningfully say that the trash collection service should be prioritizing institutional racism.
by prerok | 2025-10-04 21:51:25+00:00
While I agree with you on most points, that is not why Pluto is not a planet.

The reason is that it was observed "too soon" because of its interaction with Neptune's orbit. Once we realized there were plenty of such objects in the range of Neptune's orbit but we also realized that these were not fully formed planets, we invented the term of dwarf planet, so Pluto was demoted to that status, which it shares with many other objects in the far out orbit.

So, it was just a classification thing. We could have also said all those others are also planets.
by subscribed | 2025-10-04 21:52:42+00:00
People in the UK, at least these impacted, already know for a fact that the system IS going to be messed up and riddled with problems, without clear avenue to have it fixed

- https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366618163/UK-eVisa-syste...

- https://righttoremain.org.uk/uk-government-admits-huge-probl...

Meanwhile people will be losing jobs and houses because of it.

People trapped in this system (eg: millions of Europeans that must use this system) have pleaded to be issues a physical proof of their rights to stay, only to be rudely refused.

UK government lies that it's supposed to mimic some European ID's (which are primarily physical with the digital representation), lies it's supposed to combat illegal employment (employers are mandated to check the right to work anyway, those who don't won't be checking it anyway), and is _deep_ in bed with Palantir, which has its tentacles all over this project.

This is why UK is rejecting the idea -- again.

Voluntary, Smart, physical IDs? I'd probably get myself one. My home country issues something like it and it's a breeze to be able to prove my identity over the Internet to interact with the services.

Like this? That's a scam.
by godelski | 2025-10-04 21:52:53+00:00
More than that, it uses a lot of words to say so little.

Even a quick scan shows some pretty critical errors. In 76.4

Two parameters govern its perception: • ( ): neighborhood radius • ( MinPts ): minimum points per dense region

Or later in 76.7

In Fuzzy C-Means (FCM), each point (x_i) receives membership values (u_{ik}) in ( 0,1 ), satisfying (k u{ik} = 1). The objective is to minimize:

These are not human mistakes. They are categorically different

Also, the math really smells of AI. It has equations but it is like they have no substance. It has the form, but not the feeling. I know all this math and looking through I don't know how anyone could learn from such text. I'm not sure how it could even serve as a good reference. Where are the derivations? Where are the corollaries? Where are the implications? The extensions? The... depth?

0/10. I think you would be worse off by reading this
by boricj | 2025-10-04 21:53:01+00:00
You could store money digitally on a card. Moneo did that until 2015 and it was used in France as a wallet for paying meals in school canteens for tertiary education. That system was phased out just as I left university.

I remember writing an app in Java to read the balance on a card with my laptop which had a built-in smartcard reader, because I was too lazy to go to a station. Everyone in the classroom then promptly asked me to check their balance... and a few asked if I could top it up somehow.
by layer8 | 2025-10-04 21:53:14+00:00
The Rakuten Mini in the video is 106.2 x 53.4 x 8.6 mm at 79 grams with a 3.6” screen, so much smaller and lighter than the iPhone 4. The Rakuten Hand (also in the video) is 138 x 63 x 9.5 mm at 129 grams with a 5.1” screen, a bit taller and thicker but also narrower and lighter than the iPhone mini.

Unfortunately, the hardware, software, and interoperability of those Rakuten phones is too limited and outdated.
by tptacek | 2025-10-04 21:54:11+00:00
You also have way more orthopedic surgeons because the AMA lobbied to require primary care physicians to go through the same rigorous residency track as specialists do, where before they could begin practice after a year, and so there's almost no incentive to enter primary care medicine directly anymore; it's the same cost and effort as becoming a cardiologist, but less pay.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-10-04 21:54:26+00:00
It can depend on your exact definition of "broken", for example do you consider unpublished breaks resulting in "broken" or not?

> RSA encryption is not broken by factoring keys but by exploiting implementation flaws.

> Factoring a 2048-bit RSA key would require more energy than the world produces in a year, as explained here.

The above should probably contain some caveat's like "Assuming a GNFS attacker, ..." or "ignoring hypothetical non-public mathematical breakthroughs"
by overfeed | 2025-10-04 21:54:58+00:00
There are experts at every single state and community college, with PhDs being thr typical floor.

> Not everyone is doing groundbreaking research.

They don't need to be, they only need to be able to understand recent, groundbreaking papers in their fields, and be able to bounce ideas with colleagues in different disciplines who walk up to them.

Insinuating that faculty staff are either on the bleeding edge or useless is a false dichotomy.
by leakycap | 2025-10-04 21:55:04+00:00
Great writeup & points. I can't imagine sticking with Mac all this time if I had started on the rough 10.10 release.

> It’s a rare misstep from Apple — and an unprecedented one in scale.

There's a lack of taste & lack of respect for the user, too. Things that usually don't get fixed in point releases and take a long time to course-correct.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-10-04 21:55:09+00:00
>When voting is made ineffective by design, such as via gerrymandering, what other recourse do you propose remains for citizens?

Gerrymandering is awful but you seem to be under the mistaken impression that only Republicans do it. Both parties do it. At least the Republicans aren't trying to import the entire third world to pad numbers and get a loyal multitude of welfare cases behind them.

>Official authorised protests in designated zones away from areas that would inconvenient for politicians?

You have the right to protest in the US, not impede and intimidate law enforcement and traffic, nor to loot and destroy buildings in the vicinity of your "protest."

>Making jokes about the people in charge in public forums such as late night TV shows and then hoping the regulator doesn’t threaten to require the termination of your job as a precondition for government approvals?

How about the countless people censored on Twitter and YouTube, and the obvious political prosecutions of an ex president based on bullshit? I don't agree with censorship or two wrongs make a right, but these people are getting the abuse that they provoked.

>What exactly can ordinary people do that is effective at reigning in autocracts?

In the US, voting works. But there are evidently unelected officials in the US and around the world who control a surprising amount of policy. They work against the will of their constituents on many issues. Things are not so bad yet but I'm not sure they will never get so bad that violence would not be justified. The only reason we can vote at all is because a group of independent thinkers told a monarch to go to hell, and come get some if you don't like it. Words on paper don't guarantee your rights.
by tptacek | 2025-10-04 21:55:19+00:00
Because you're intent on framing a policy decision you dislike as "murder" you've found yourself arguing that running a death camp wouldn't be prosecutable without a "crimes against humanity" law, and comparing the administration of health care systems to the Holocaust. This is what I mean by saying you've twisted yourself into a pretzel. You made a bad argument. It's not the end of the world; I do it all the time. Let it go.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-10-04 21:57:45+00:00
> This wasn't possible even a year ago.

My experience has been that it was. I was using AI last year to build ML models about as well as I have been this year.

I'm not saying AI isn't useful, just that the progress certainly looks to be sigmoid not exponential in growth. By far the biggest year for improvement was 2022-2023. Early 2022 I didn't think any of the code assistants were useful, by 2023 I was able to use them more reliably. 2024 was another big improvement, but I honestly haven't felt the change (at least not for the better).

Some of the tooling may be better, but that has little do to with exponential progress in AI itself.
by alganet | 2025-10-04 21:57:58+00:00
If _some_ kind of life is possible in Venus, shouldn't Venus have it?

That's how life works on Earth. If it _can_ live somewhere, it's probably already there. We think that's related to how it can survive and adapt, so it's reasonable to assume other life would be similar in that regard.

Therefore, by this logic, if Venus is able to sustain any life, it should already be there.

I know it sounds weird. What if life never got there? Well, it had plenty of opportunity. The universe is old and lots of things happened in it already.

Maybe life is a late addition to the universe, and we're one of the first instances of it. Or maybe it's rare, and we're lucky. Both the "life is new" and "life is rare" ideas, however, paint a picture of Earth being a special case somehow. "We are a special case" is not a very satisfying answer though (from the scientific point of view).
by moffkalast | 2025-10-04 21:58:48+00:00
Idk, before this people from your camp were saying LLMs can't even understand anything. Always moving the goalposts. Then it'll be they can't feel or can't something else just to be pointlessly contrarian. Anyway, wrong idea.

There have been enough cases of models providing novel results that it's clear that whatever human trait they supposedly lack they don't really need. A car does not need legs, it does things differently. Having legs would even be a major detriment and would hold it back from achieving its top performance.

That's what those brain simulating projects are conceptually btw: cars with legs or planes with flapping wings. That's why they all fail, the approach makes no sense.
by godelski | 2025-10-04 21:59:35+00:00
It's not clear DMCA applies in this setting. I'm neither a lawyer nor a "hacker", but reading through the whole page you linked I can't figure out what part implies cars are covered? If they were, then it seems like it would put mechanics at best in a gray area.

> Why is it illegal to break the encryption of video game consoles?

Is it? I know it is illegal to strip a game and upload it to the internet. But is it illegal to save your own digital copy? I was under the impression that this violates terms of use, but isn't illegal. That the legality was focused around distribution.

IIRC Sony lost that court case where the Navy turned their Playstations into a supercomputer.

I'm not trying to argue, but I'm trying to state my understanding so someone can better help me understand. I really do want to know how many crimes I've committed lol
by thrtythreeforty | 2025-10-04 22:00:04+00:00
Suppose I own my house and don't feel like running a new set of wires thru my house, so I'm comfortable separating the panel into a downstream solar-capable subpanel and a real battery stack, but want a similarly thrifty and red-tape-free setup (which never backfeeds the grid). What other pieces of equipment could I substitute?
by silcoon | 2025-10-04 22:00:42+00:00
I thought about a similar problems because I always find really interesting blogs (mostly on HN) but I don't have a real place to store them, so they get lost when I close the tab. I can save them in the favorites but I'm not used to check favorites regularly.

Feeds are a tangent solution because they give you only the new stuff. Feeds transform blogs into social media platforms where what matter is the new fresh content, ready to "feed" the algorithm. But blogs and personal sites are different. High quality content is usually written in a single article, maybe in the past, and it will not be shown on your feed.

Actually I judge a blog on what's already written in there, so I want to read more articles but maybe just not right now. If I add the blog to my RSS reader I would only read future content.

Another patch to this problem is Instapaper. I can save there the most interesting articles and read them later, but the entire-blog view is missing.

I would like to have a way (platform) where I can save a blog and read all/some articles, with a standard formatting (custom blogs are nice but not always comfortable to read) and not having a default sorting for recent articles.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-10-04 22:01:04+00:00
Aren't the English already forced to give cops their phone passwords and face jail time if they refuse to?

Giving away Apple's encrypted cloud is just another small step into making 1984 a reality.

In France, they tried to make a law to force signals, WhatsApp, and other encrypted messaging to implement backdoors so that they could catch drug dealers.

Thankfully, it wasn't voted for, but truthfully, the average people didn't give a shit. I wish there was a way to make people learn how important privacy is to freedom and, therefore, to democracy.

I blame the education system that teaches almost nothing relevant. We even had 'citizen lessons', but it was about learning how the political institution works. We never spoke about what is freedom, what it involves, how easy it is to lose it, how hard it is to gain it.
by earthnail | 2025-10-04 22:01:07+00:00
I just wrote up the solution for a combinatorics problem in Typst. It was my first time using it. Wow, it is so smooth, it's unbelievable. After this little exercise I'm 100% sold.

For homework-like tasks, Typst is so much easier to use than Latex. I can accept that Latex is still required for journals, but as more and more in academia will use Typst for their smaller day to day jobs, I'm hopeful that one day it will be accepted with journals as well.
by mey | 2025-10-04 22:01:15+00:00
> treat self-hosting like a hobby and learn to enjoy it.

This is why I have stepped away from a lot of my self hosting. I have turned my attention/time elsewhere. Apparently though the time/money balance is shifting a bit again, so it may be worth it to go back.

My biggest hesitance to self hosting email specifically is dealing with spam. What does that look like these days and do you have any pointers to share?
by anonymousiam | 2025-10-04 22:01:40+00:00
So from the selfish Apple perspective, it made perfect sense and Apple did the right thing (for them). From a rights/freedom perspective (for their users), they did the wrong thing, but that's not a battle that they they alone can win.

Out of the 197 countries in the world, how many have governments that respect the privacy rights of their citizens enough to prevent mass surveillance of them? Answer: Zero. Bring on the arguments about the various laws that prevent this, and I'll point you to the "national security and law enforcement exceptions" they they all have, sometimes in the form of "classified" contracts or court orders, and sometimes in the form of "executive orders" or other similar instruments. There are also agreements between the intelligence services of allied countries that facilitate information sharing, so each counterpart can do the collection and analysis of the partner nation and share the results, without technically violating any of their laws.
by leakycap | 2025-10-04 22:02:01+00:00
I grew up decades ago and remember some books being banned at my school library, even though it probably wasn't officially on a list somewhere to be tabulated and counted. I think the reality of what isn't allowed in schools goes far beyond these stats.

The 80/20 rule usually applies to large numbers & the 3 states you list represent 15-20% of US student population and 80% of bans.
by varispeed | 2025-10-04 22:02:13+00:00
If you are not a shareholder, then it is an incredibly poor advice.

1. Only do bare minimum. They key is to keep your manager unhappy, but not unhappy enough to fire you.

2. If there is nothing in particular to do, always spend time on things that will benefit you directly. For instance, upskill to find a better job, read, volunteer or even simply entertain yourself to keep mental health in check.

Before you do something, always ask yourself a question: am I paid enough to do this? Answer is almost always: No.
by jasode | 2025-10-04 22:02:57+00:00
>I get 99% deliverability with 0 repuation since i do dkim and spf correct.

Your anecdote of success doesn't matter to the others that correctly configured DKIM/SPF and still don't get their emails delivered to Gmail/Outlook/Yahoo/etc. E.g. : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32715437

One of the reasons for hard-to-diagnose sending failures is that Gmail/Outlook have "extra invisible rules" that override correct DKIM/SPF settings because spammers and phishers also have correct DKIM/SPF. So they use extra heuristics such as "ip reputation" etc.

And even after one gets it working, e.g. "submit some form" to Microsoft and wait a few days to get things unblocked... the deliverability may break again because of another "invisible heuristic".

EDIT to reply: >No, that's because your relay overwrites part of the header which makes dkim strict break. Change to relaxed or don't modify the header on your relay.

Delivery reliability can still break without using a relay.

In fact, this unreliability of 100% self-hosting at home is why some self-hosters split it into a hybrid setup and add an external relay for outgoing SMTP and only keep self-hosting for receiving email.