MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lucb1e | 2025-10-10 22:05:45+00:00
I have the same issue. Think of my site as WeTransfer, but instead of only files, you can also use it as a link shortener or pastebin. Abuse works the same as on every other site or service: I do spot checks and users can report content. This was fine until uBlock Origin decided the website was malicious, per one of the lists that is default-enabled for everyone

That list doesn't have a clear way to get off of it. I would be happy to give them the heads up that their users are complaining about a website being broken, but there is no such thing, neither for users nor for me. In looking around, there's many "sources" that allegedly independently decided around the same day that my site needs to not work anymore, so now there's a dozen parties I need to talk to and more popping up the further you look. Netcraft started sending complaints to the registrar (which got the whole domain put on hold), some other list said they sent abuse to the IP space owner (my ISP), public resolvers have started delisting the domain (pretending "there is no such domain" by returning NXDOMAIN), as well as the mentioned adblockers

There's only one person who hasn't been contacted: the owner. I could actually do something about the abusive content...

It's like the intended path is that users start to complaint "your site doesn't work" (works for me, wdym?) and you need to figure out what software is it they're using, what DNS resolver they use, what antivirus, what browser, if a DOH provider is enabled... to find out who it might be that's breaking the site. People don't know how many blocklists they're using, and the blocklists don't give a shit if you're not a brand name they recognize. That's the only difference between my site and a place like Github: if I report "github.com hosts malware", nobody thinks "oh, we need to nuke that malicious site asap!"

I'd broaden the submitted post to say that it's not only Google with too much power, but these blocklists have no notification mechanism or general recourse method. It's a whack-a-mole situation which, as an open source site with no profit model (intentionally so), I will never win. Big tech is what wins. Idk if these lists do a trademark registration check or how they decide who's okay and who's not, but I suspect it's simply a brand name thing and your reviewer needs to know you

> Luckily, Google provided me with a helpful list of the offending sites

Google is doing better than most others with that feature. Most "intelligence providers", which other blocklists like e.g. Quad9 uses, are secretive about why they're listing you, or never even respond at all
by rpcope1 | 2025-10-10 22:06:26+00:00
Honestly what's unsaid in a lot of this is that it would be really nice if there were more and wider ISM bands. So much makes use of 900Mhz, 2.4GHz and 5GHz in novel and innovative ways, that if the government and FCC really actually wanted to spark innovation including augmenting wifi performance, they'd stop letting telcos and other questionable interests hoard spectrum and release it as ISM (and no, they shouldn't steal from ham bands to make ISM bands either).
by Reason077 | 2025-10-10 22:07:06+00:00
I have the standard iPhone 13 (not mini) and the battery longevity is probably the best of any phone I've ever owned. At over 3.5 years old it still reports 89% battery health and lasts much longer than I need. Previous iPhones I owned were all pretty much on their last legs by that age.

I haven't upgraded it to iOS 26 / Liquid Glass, though, and given what I'm seeing/hearing, I don't plan to.
by yencabulator | 2025-10-10 22:07:07+00:00
Just because it's a slow motion rugpull doesn't make something not a rugpull.

I did not watch any keynote and frankly place exactly 0% faith in the words of the people behind this move. The rugpulls we have seen so far have all been shady business moves mostly by dishonest people, so that is my expectation.

It's like every acquisition ever, they say nice words at the time it happens, reality unfolds later: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

I see nothing here but yet another Open Core project that will be utterly irrelevant in 1-3 years.
by baby_souffle | 2025-10-10 22:07:18+00:00
> The house I live in was built with ethernet, but of the fourteen outlets the builders saw fit to include, not one is located where we can make use of it.

I had a similar situation a few years back. It was a rental so I didn't have access to the attic let alone permission to do my own drops. It'll depend a _lot_ on your exact setup, but we had reasonably good results with some ethernet-over-power adapters.
by jychang | 2025-10-10 22:08:32+00:00
Smart people are financially hurt by it.

Isn't that the entire point of the prediction market model? You derive the wisdom of the crowd by enabling smarter people who make better educated guesses as predictions (from the same access to information as others) to win out over time. They are incentivized to do this financially, by winning bets.

If markets just becomes "first person to cheat takes all", then there's no incentive to NOT cheat. So you drive away the people who power the prediction market in the absence of information. Over time, this means that the prediction market is just random noise until a leaker publishes news. At that point, you might as well as just skip the middleman and just make a website "LeakNews" where you can directly offer bounties that goes towards a reward paid out to a leaker for news you are interested in.
by nradov | 2025-10-10 22:08:33+00:00
Right, that's the part that most consumers don't understand about inpatient bills and insurance claims. They hear stories about a "$100 Tylenol" or whatever but those line items often don't actually impact the amount charged to the patient's health plan. Many of the numbers are completely artificial and essentially only serve as placeholders for the accounting and ERP systems. I'm not trying to defend that system but for complex path dependency reasons it's difficult for anyone to reform.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-10-10 22:08:36+00:00
My cousin says there should be a maximum voting age. She says if people can't vote for the first 18 years of their life, why should they be able to vote for the last 18 years (e.g. if retired or older than 65)?

I disagree, of course. I don't talk to this cousin anymore. Personally I think the very elderly contain the wisdom for future generations, and make the best decisions because of all that wisdom, so they should really be in charge of everything.
by ericselin | 2025-10-10 22:09:17+00:00
Author here. What kind of security negligence are you referring to? What would be a specific attack vector that I left open?

Regarding the PSL - and I can't believe I'm writing this again: you cannot get on there before your service is big enough and "the request authentically merits such widespread inclusion"[1]. So it's kind of a chicken and egg situation.

Regarding the best practice of hosting user content on a separate domain: this has basically two implications: 1. Cookie scope of my own assets (e.g. dashboard), which one should limit in any case and which I'm of course doing. So this is not an issue. 2. Blacklisting, which is what all of this has been about. I did pay the price here. This has nothing to do with security, though.

I'm sorry to be so frank, but you don't know anything about me or my security practices and your claim of negligence is extremely unfounded.

[1] https://github.com/publicsuffix/list/wiki/Guidelines#validat...
by bicx | 2025-10-10 22:09:27+00:00
2025 feels like a cardinal year for top-down decisions we all just have to endure for the present. The best we can do is bitch loudly and often, and hope the people at the top still feel threatened by consumers/constituents.

This Liquid Glass decision is particularly challenging for my tiny startup. We have multiple platforms including iOS and Android. I was hoping to share much of our design language across iOS and Android, but now Apple has essentially decided that this Liquid Glass will be mandatory after a year of support for "compatibility mode" that disables it for your app.

We'll now have to spend expensive engineering time to cater to Apple's design whims rather than actually working on PMF and profitability.
by KempyKolibri | 2025-10-10 22:09:52+00:00
Sorry, I summarised what I thought was your goalpost earlier in the exact same words and you didn’t correct me, so I made the assumption in subsequent replies. I’m not interested in straw manning your argument, just trying to understand.

I’m going to pass on the crash test dummies bit. You’ve misunderstood the point I was making, but it could be poor communication by me and I think the point is becoming increasingly tangential.

> When it comes to pharmaceutics and food additives, our mechanistic understanding is insufficient so we often have to resort to empirical studies on humans, including RCTs

> It does, because again, mechanism is provided. You could say that the study has weak evidence for the mechanism and it works like that perhaps only for sugar. Because that some mechanism is found in mice does not mean it is also found in humans, and it would be a fair point. This is why many species are tested and so far the results held up (testing humans takes too long for obvious reasons).

So you don’t feel you’re being straw manned again, can I get a clear answer to this: is your argument that if we stack together sufficient numbers of mechanistic animal studies we can be sufficiently confident enough in the translation rate of such studies to humans that we can roll out public health interventions without any evidence of efficacy in human populations?
by windows_hater_7 | 2025-10-10 22:10:04+00:00
I think there were some nice improvements like changing the cursor in iPadOS to be an arrow instead of a circle. I’m really just shocked at the number of serious bugs in the updates. My Apple Watch is sometimes 7 minutes faster than the actual time. MacOS is the worst though. I don’t remember the last time I experienced a kernel panic, but today my Mac crashed because of a DMA translation fault.
by baby_souffle | 2025-10-10 22:10:16+00:00
> It is bizarre that they are putting 100mbps Ethernet ports on TVs though.

It's a few pennies cheaper and i'm sure they have some data showing 70%+ will just use WiFi. TCL in particular doesn't even have very good/stable drivers for their 10/100 NIC; there's a ton of people on the Home Assistant forums that have noticed that their android powered smart TV will just ... stop working / responding on the network until it's rebooted.
by lsch1033 | 2025-10-10 22:11:01+00:00
Sounds like it's the first time you know AAPL. You won't get disappointed if lower your expectations of products from such a company. I am using iPhone SE as a digital wallet / dumb phone, the new UI doesn't make it worse because it's already buggy and nonresponsive. Newer devices on your hands will perform as bad after three years.
by lxgr | 2025-10-10 22:11:58+00:00
This seems like a minority perspective, but while (or maybe because) I was really prepared to hate Liquid Glass, I actually quite like it, all in all.

I can’t speak for people with visual impairments, but for me, many of the effects actually work, and I appreciate the on average larger hit targets.

Some things, like the little icons inline of some macOS menu bar items, actually make it easier to quickly spot a given option in a long list to me.
by oxguy3 | 2025-10-10 22:12:49+00:00
Well imagine they had to do a go-around on that landing. Go-arounds are extremely normal and might be done for a million reasons; your speed is wrong, your descent rate is wrong, your positioning is wrong, there's bad wind, there's an issue on the ground, etc etc etc. Six minutes of fuel is really not enough to be sure that you can do a go-around. So now, if ANY of those very normal everyday issues occurs, the pilot has to choose between two very bad options: doing a go-around with almost no fuel, or attempting a landing despite the issue. That's just way too close for comfort.

Aviation operates on a Swiss cheese model; the idea is that you want many many layers of safety (slices of cheese). Inevitably, every layer will have some holes, but with enough layers, you should still be safe; there won't be a hole that goes all the way through. In this case, they basically got down to their very last slice of cheese; it was just luck that the last layer held.
by rbranson | 2025-10-10 22:13:03+00:00
> It's a much better answer to hook up everything on Ethernet that you possibly can than it is to follow the more traveled route of more channels and more congestion with mesh Wi-Fi.

Certainly this is the brute-force way to do it and can work if you can run enough UTP everywhere. As a counterexample, I went all-in on WiFi and have 5 access points with dedicated backhauls. This is in SF too, so neighbors are right up against us. I have ~60 devices on the WiFi and have no issues, with fast roaming handoff, low jitter, and ~500Mbit up/down. I built this on UniFi, but I suspect Eero PoE gear could get you pretty close too, given how well even their mesh backhaul gear performs.
by sangeeth96 | 2025-10-10 22:13:25+00:00
In the default “compact” layout, I can open a new tab in two taps by tapping the 3 dots, tap “New tab” from the menu.

One tap by holding the 3 dots and dragging finger to the “new tab” item.

But I didn’t like “compact” so switched to “bottom” layout for Tabs from Settings > Apps > Safari.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-10 22:13:28+00:00
I like it too. However, I have noticed several screens that clearly were never tested by any Apple testers. Not just the liquid glass part, either; I've found entirely borked screens inside of the iOS settings app.

When I tried to get Aero Glass into Linux themes, I found plenty of existing transparency-oriented themes, but all of them made Microsoft's decision to use frosted glass more obvious. There's a balance between the shininess and opacity that needs to be dialed down for the look to both look good and be clear.

I think Apple went too far with making their theme look shiny. I assume (hope) a 26.1 update coming out in a few months to tweak the UI and fix a lot of the usability issues.

As for the weird design choices around Safari: I've always found Safari's UI to be one of the most confusing parts of iOS. It was never quite obvious to me what menu I would need to hit to get to what feature. I think removing the tab button is a step backwards for sure, but with my normal struggle to use it, I've barely noticed it to be honest. I find the button as easy to find as I do most Safari buttons, and that includes previous versions.

macOS seems particularly bad for built-in software, though. It seems like Apple changed the look of standard list boxes/navigation panels/whatever they call the menu on the left, and a lot of built-in macOS applications look terrible when multiple of these panes are placed near each other.
by pastel8739 | 2025-10-10 22:14:18+00:00
Notably, the language in the compact does not limit legal intervention to those violent actions. It requires action against even peaceful protesting in a library, or even in a hallway or outdoor area (as a student I often studied in both of these places).

Further, your "setting fire to university" video is in South Africa; it hardly seems relevant here. Access to global news will always provide extremes. To me, it's important that actions we take serve the everyday reality rather than the rare occurrences that happen in a few places but are amplified by human attraction to violence and drama.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-10 22:14:20+00:00
> Not really clear what you mean by this.

The amount of shares in many a large company that are held by passive or semi-passive investment vehicles.

It's not just high net worth individuals and nation-state entities (wealth funds) that pump money into YC, Meta, Apple, NVidia, Microsoft and god knows what else, the bulk of the ownerships is held indirectly by the wide masses via one sort or another of pension schemes.

Elon Musk doesn't play with his own money on xAI, he plays with the money of his investors, and so do all the other actors in the AI bubble.
by anonymousiam | 2025-10-10 22:14:31+00:00
Because nobody (including the link from president.mit.edu) included the text of the Compact, I'm linking it here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/1...

After a quick skim, I don't see an issue. Is the opposition to this based upon any rational argument, or is it just "Resist Trump"?
by epistasis | 2025-10-10 22:14:33+00:00
This is the worst part of it.

I actually feel a warm computer now, something that I have never experienced in five years of having this M1 MacBook.

This takes amazing hardware and degrades it to Windows laptop slop.

In the Jobs days, at least one VP head would roll for this, and Apple would be far better off for it. I don't think Tim Cook is strong enough for that though.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-10 22:14:40+00:00
Yeah it's so un-Apple like it's really jarring.

It feels like they pulled this out of their ass last minute after the AI siri failures, they had to have something to put out for 2025.

I actually don't mind it on iPhone outside of the bugs and inconsitencies, but it's attrocious on macOS and the new iPad windowing was obviously made with zero consideration for touch-first users and was only made to cater to the whiners about iPad needing to become more mac-like.

Just poorly though out all around.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-10 22:15:00+00:00
I’m reminded of this classic:

Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views

Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

Con: LOL no...no not those views

Me: So....deregulation?

Con: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Con: Oh, you know the ones
by dekhn | 2025-10-10 22:15:11+00:00
I worked for Google for a while and there was a whole set of banned questions and topics- for example, when interviewing, I was told to never ask where somebody was from- that's discriminatory.

Originally I assumed all of this was good-faith advice from lawyers. It was only over time that I recognized that the leadership at Google continuously got itself in trouble by doing illegal things around hiring, and was telling interviewers all sorts of stuff that simply wasn't supported by law (similarly true for the constant warnings about not reading patents, or speculating about legal problems in a discoverable medium- it was the execs who fucked up, not the employees). I had to unlearn a lot when I left for another company.

Please keep asking people questions like this- I like how you phrased it: "this can only help, not hurt you".
by frizlab | 2025-10-10 22:15:15+00:00
Interestingly the animation when an app is opened has actually been sped up in iOS 26!

On macOS you can speed up/disable the animations using some hidden defaults (you can easily find that on the internet).

Personally I like the animations; I find them well-done on macOS. They serve a purpose but are not “too much” either IMHO.
by zem | 2025-10-10 22:15:53+00:00
I would have had far more positive feelings towards the hack if they had done that - e.g. had their roommate configure a bot to monitor a wechat room and respond to url requests by sending back a webpage. tunneling over DNS feels icky because the reason DNS traffic goes into a separate accounting pool is so that the basic infrastructure of the internet can be kept working smoothly, so this is getting firmly into tragedy of the commons territory.
by ericselin | 2025-10-10 22:15:58+00:00
Ok, I see. You mean the possibility of users impersonating statichost.eu itself. That is actually a good point, and the exact reason why user subdomains are required to have a dash in them. Edit: Also, only ASCII is allowed. :)

I guess control-panel.statichost.eu is still possible, of course, but that already seems like a pretty long shot.
by game_the0ry | 2025-10-10 22:16:37+00:00
I am so glad I am not the only one.

I see like 3-5 UI bugs a day in iOS 26. Liquid ass, indeed. Some apple product VP really wanted to be the next Steve Jobs, took 4 steps backwards instead.

I'll probably end up switching to android eventually, and I am bummed about it bc I am an apple fan boy and I like the ecosystem.
by araes | 2025-10-10 22:16:51+00:00
At least on the part about the Nootka lupine (Lupinus nootkatensis), seems they're edible in seed and root form [1][2][3] as long as they're leeched properly beforehand to get rid of bitter (possibly toxic) alkaloids. Grizzly bears apparently also relish the roots. Some butterflies feed off the lupine. Medicinally, with less references, used for digestive disorders, skin conditions, and infections.[4]

Can probably just farm them, or harvest the fields that exist, and then store the seeds / roots or make flour out of them. Seems like a possible farm crop personally. Go out with a harvester designed for beans / peas. There's not that much that grows in Iceland anyways.

[1] USDA, https://plants.usda.gov/DocumentLibrary/plantguide/pdf/pg_lu...

[2] Sierra Club, https://sierraclub.bc.ca/ecomap/nootka-lupine/

[3] Plants for a Future, https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Lupinus+nootkaten...

[4] Wild Flower Web, http://www.wildflowerweb.co.uk/plant/2579/nootka-lupin#:~:te...
by jvanderbot | 2025-10-10 22:16:52+00:00
I appreciate this I really do.

But how will you see if modelling biological processes with rust actually benefits from a strong type system? What have you learned from this? Vs what have you read from the promises of the chatbot?

I don't mean to be dismissive but I think the real goal is "make something cool with an AI agent" and that's fine. But be honest
by conaclos | 2025-10-10 22:18:22+00:00
I tried Helix two years ago, unfortunately the default keymap was a bit frustrating to me. I don't mind changing my habits, however I had difficulty I made sense of the keymap design.

For example, typing `w` select the word. However, typing `2w` select the second word and not two words. To select two words you have to enter in visual mode (`v2w`). To remove two words you thus need to type `v2wd` or `wdwd`. In Vim you can type `d2w`. I miss this composability. In Kakoune (one of the main inspiration of Helix), you can type `2Wd` (`2wd` has the same behavior as Helix).

I was also hoping that the use of Ctrl/Alt modifiers be completely removed. Why not fully embrace modal editing?
by nixpulvis | 2025-10-10 22:18:48+00:00
> Now, in iOS 26, search has migrated to the bottom of the screen and is always visible.

Holy shit, why?!

Clicking the too of the screen always would bring you back to the top and then search was right there! This is what we get when people cater to the lowest denominator and try holding the hands of people I don't want to be lumped in with.
by heywoods | 2025-10-10 22:18:51+00:00
So many changes over the years and some of them might actually be decent but I wouldn’t have known about this had I not read this comment or accidentally triggered it in the future. Has Apple experimented with “micro” tutorials that can pop up if they detect the user is performing an action in an inefficient/deprecated pattern? I.e. if in Safari I navigate to all tabs by tapping at the bottom —> hamburger icon —> all tabs a one time modal pops up showing the ux pattern they recommend
by dylan604 | 2025-10-10 22:18:55+00:00
I don't even know what you're asking, or how that's the question you ask from my comment. Clearly, no, I don't think a human and a bot are the same. I'm saying that evilCorp is not going to pay for a human support staff in the year 2025 when the company is pushing it's AI/LLM chatbot as a major part of who they are. If the chatbot company doesn't use its own chatbot, why would anyone else? Of course they are not going to pay for humans.

How does any of that lead to your asking if I think humans === bots?