MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bilbo0s | 2025-10-23 13:46:12+00:00
Again, this is often the case in civil conflicts (factional fighting). But the subjects of this action are undeniably bad actors. Are the authorities bad actors as well, yes, very likely. But the regional players want the targeted subject's abilities degraded and their options strangled regardless of what the local authority wants. I think the rest of the world is simply lining up behind the regional players. Which was inevitable really.
by RajT88 | 2025-10-23 13:46:28+00:00
> If they can answer your questions, and their answers come from solid foundations

I am currently a cloud architect, but generally speaking when I've interviewed candidates, I prefer this approach.

If you can't answer detailed questions about something you've allegedly done, you're cooked. In real life, you're not going into a situation where you can't use reference information to help you remember all the details.
by jakedahn | 2025-10-23 13:46:35+00:00
Author here-- hah, I'm surprised someone posted this already-- I just came to share it as a Show HN post and get the conversation started:

I’ve been playing with Claude Skills and stumbled on a simple pattern for tiny, durable personal data systems:

* CLI: a small, self-contained executable

* SKILL.md: the operator's manual (what to run, how to parse output, how to think about the system)

* SQLite: a local DB for persistent state

It’s nothing mind-blowing, but the ergonomics of this combo feel great.

If you define a process/flow, Claude can "turn the crank" by running the CLI, accumulating context, and animating the system to life over time.

They’re also easy to share: you can distribute System Skills via Claude Code’s `/plugin marketplace add <repo>`.

More details in the blog post and the toy Pomodoro System Skill reference implementation here:

Blog: https://www.shruggingface.com/blog/the-system-skill-pattern Repo: https://github.com/jakedahn/pomodoro

--

Curious whether any of this resonates. Also excited to hear any interesting System Skill ideas worth exploring!
by everfrustrated | 2025-10-23 13:46:41+00:00
>Services like DynamoDB maintain hundreds of thousands of DNS records to operate a very large heterogeneous fleet of load balancers in each Region

Does that mean a DNS query for dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com can resolve to one of a hundred thousand IP address?

That's insane!

And also well beyond the limits of route53.

I'm wondering if they're constantly updating route53 with a smaller subset of records and using a low ttl to somewhat work around this.
by taeric | 2025-10-23 13:46:43+00:00
Similar to what I said in the sibling post, this is classic talking past each other. The word "disorder" doesn't appear in the thread until here. If you are speaking to a definition that distinguishes traumatic events and disorders, you are having a different conversation than I was having. And, as I said in sibling, I think that is a good conversation and one worth having. Just wasn't the one I was in.
by bluGill | 2025-10-23 13:47:53+00:00
The first fines should be meaningless to the company. If the issue isn't fixed the fines should get higher and higher. If the company fixes one issue but there is a second discovered quickly we should assume they don't care about safety and the second issue should have a higher fine than the first even though it is unrelated.

Companies (and people) have an obligation to do the right thing.
by gedy | 2025-10-23 13:47:59+00:00
> Recruiters should not recruit programmers if they, the recruiters, have not worked in a programming context.

Ran into this the other day, a company reached out, and while I wasn't job hunting, the senior role they were trying to fill was basically exactly a perfect fit for me from a skills and background on a Venn diagram.

The first two calls were young, non-technical women (they shared linkedin links), and they clearly did not understand what they were hiring for and couldn't answer questions. They insisted on their scripted questions, and didn't want to talk about the companies where I did the exact role they were hiring for.

I was not rude or arrogant about this but the next day got the "Unfortunately, we've..." email. It's actual pretty funny, I'm just glad I didn't really need the job.

Companies, stop letting HR be your first contacts and screening before technical folks. It doesn't work. No wonder your pipelines are full of the fakers and liars like many of you lament.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-23 13:48:14+00:00
They would most likely use the browsers they offer users to scrap and stream the content back to an endpoint for ingest and processing as users browse Reddit, think Recap the Law extension for Pacer (which scrapes Pacer while a user browses it and ships the data to the Internet Archive) or ArchiveTeam’s Warrior VM. You can’t defend against scraping when every user browser, that looks like a human because it is a human, is a crawler node.

At least, this is how I would engineer a public browser operating as an adversarial distributed crawler network.
by ttd | 2025-10-23 13:48:20+00:00
Thank you very much for all this feedback! I really appreciate your consideration.

For your note on different states for screens. Can you elaborate or give an example? I'm quite interested in this mode that you're describing.

The ellipse issue sounds like snapping getting in the way. It's on my list to come up with a better heuristic of when to apply snapping or not. One example of an idea I have here is to incorporate some hysteresis effect - essentially examining the local history of mouse movements when deciding to apply snapping or not. Right now each mouse movement is treated independently.

Also, were you in dark mode? It's definitely not intended that the whole screen should change color - a popup should dim the content behind. The whole screen changing color sounds like a bug and I'll investigate.
by sexyman48 | 2025-10-23 13:49:20+00:00
Sapiens is a bait-and-switch. It starts out great promising at least a hypothetical account of early man, then begs off saying 30,000 years is too long ago, and burns 300 pages on essentially wokeism.

Bryson's book is great, but it's wide-ranging pop sci, not specifically about early man.
by techblueberry | 2025-10-23 13:49:58+00:00
Isn’t this the elite economic “theory” thinking the author decries:

“The Cattle Ranchers, who I love, don’t understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the United States, including a 50% Tariff on Brazil,” Trump wrote.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-23 13:50:05+00:00
I know it because (a) I read the article and (b) the combinators, brainfuck and so on have something magical to me: they show how unbelievably simple universal computation can be. When I was a kid I always imagined these layers underneath my code. BASIC, then the interpreter (written in assembly) then the machine code represenation of that read out by the CPU (in a way another interpreter, this time in hardware), and underneath that the logic gates. But there were so many logic gates, it still seemed quite complex. Adders, shifters, counters and so on.

What this does is it strips away that last layer and compresses it into the most simple abstractions. Just like the 'one instruction set computers', another favorite.

https://esolangs.org/wiki/OISC

So the hardware all but evaporates, it is software until the very lowest level and then there is this very simple substrate.
by thelittlenag | 2025-10-23 13:50:47+00:00
I've really liked interviews where I either present a personal project I've worked on, or get to interview someone about their own personal projects. It's just more fun.

Their major complaint of the project approach is not getting signal on adaptability to new codebases. That has never been a first concern at any company I've worked at, and frankly if engineers are touching a new codebase every month then I'm getting a bit worried.
by SirMaster | 2025-10-23 13:50:54+00:00
But does it actually make stuff look like you can reach out and touch it like the 3D movies at theme parks? I don't see how it would. This just seems like parallax.

You can do this with a Kinect for head tracking and people do that with homemade pinball machines using a TV as the table, and a Kinect to track your head, so it looks like the table is 3D down into the TV.

But I don't think it creates the full 3D effect with things looking like they are coming way out of the screen and like a tangible thing you can reach out and touch.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-23 13:51:04+00:00
So, the eggs roughly follow the CPI, except during spikes in avian bird flu? 2015, 2022, and 2025 were peak years for bird flu in avian populations.

Since 2022 and 2025 are close together, and the latter very recent (the flu outbreak peaked in early 2025, not today)... it's not even suprising to see the non-spike prices of 2023-2024 and late 2025 elevated. Chickens are fungible, but the manufacturing method still has a latency to it.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-10-23 13:51:07+00:00
> Can you? Ok, "definitely private company who doesn't operate at the behest of the state". That's a loophole you can fly a country through.

Yeah, no one is making money sabotaging GPS Signals. The reality is that there are numerous agreements that regulate the use of frequencies. If a country tolerates misuse that actively interferes with another countries critical infrastructure that's pretty blatant. And again, you as the country being interfered with can do everything from tariffs, sanctions to destroying boats to make the other country interested in enforcing their laws and stop you from interfering.

> So is it "an act of war" or a "don't give a shit" situation?

This isn't as hard as you try to make it. If country a allows commercial use of a frequency band, any company in that country wouldn't have to give a shit about using it. If you as a country deliberately chose a frequency band for commerical use that just so happens to interfer with your neighbours police signals, enjoy the sanctions, diplomacy or war that follows.

But trying to make companies in country a follow the laws in country b is not going to happen by fiat just because. Imagine Saudi Arabias anti atheism laws being enforced in the USA because they might be able to receive your website. Ridicolous.
by kasey_junk | 2025-10-23 13:51:16+00:00
If you ever spend much time trying to _build_ a competent hiring pipeline (and every dev should it’s an eye opening experience) you come to realize that it’s very hard to evaluate the process itself.

For instance I found, the same questions, from a script, asked by different evaluators would regularly perform differently. But getting statistical relevance is hard!

So that’s the allure of leetcode. You can get a large population with standardization, relatively cheaply. That it’s actually a bad eval method gets lost in the wash which is unfortunate but I certainly understand it.

Conversely, “talk about your project” was a completely useless eval when I tried to use it. Good candidates failed, bad candidates passed, evaluators had all manner of biases to the point I started being suspicious that _time of day_ mattered more than the answer.

I’d 100% buy that an individual can accurately judge candidates with this approach, but I’d want heavy evidence if you claimed you could scale it.
by exasperaited | 2025-10-23 13:51:57+00:00
> You could argue in this case Trump was simply being clear eyed about what was actually achievable

You could. But you could more credibly argue that the US position on Ukraine has been slowly and comprehensively fucked over in a way that very precisely mirrors Putin's goals, by people who have notably public pro-Putin alignments, from Manafort to Trump himself (a man who literally laundered oligarch money).

It is truly obvious what is going on and it's a shame people can't see it.
by chrisco255 | 2025-10-23 13:53:11+00:00
He hasn't taken any option off the table with Russia. He's applying economic pressure by placing large tariffs on countries that trade openly with Russia, he's floating the Tomahawks to let Putin know we'll just keep beefing up Ukrainian weaponry, etc. I think he's hesitant to activate, say, B2 bombers like he did in Iran, but Russia remains a huge nuclear power so it obviously has to be treated differently, no one wants World War III.
by chuckadams | 2025-10-23 13:53:22+00:00
IPFS has been doing some great work around decentralization that actually scales (Netflix uses it internally to speed up container delivery), but a) it's only good for static content, b) things still need friendly URLs, and c) once it becomes the mainstream, bad actors will find a way to ruin it anyway.

These apply to a lot of other decentralized systems too.
by maccard | 2025-10-23 13:53:26+00:00
Whether or not you like it, that's how international relations works.

The US famously has gripes with Cuba, Iran, HK, Afghanistan and others, that affect those countries unfairly. If another country decides to side with Iran, they'll find themselves on the US sanction list. So is it more just to deny the people of your country access to trade and interaction with the US?
by woodruffw | 2025-10-23 13:53:43+00:00
> If it were today, would it be the same or would we end up with protobuf or thrift or similar?

The main advantage of ASN.1 (specifically DER) in an HTTPS/PKI context is that it's a canonical encoding. To my understanding Protobuf isn't; I don't know about Thrift.

(A lot of hay is made about ASN.1 being bad, but it's really BER and other non-DER encodings of ASN.1 that make things painful. If you only read and write DER and limit yourself to the set of rules that occur in e.g. the Internet PKI RFCs, it's a relatively tractable and normal looking serialization format.)
by bilbo0s | 2025-10-23 13:54:31+00:00
I think the commenter only meant that there is such a thing as RF engineering. But that to be effective, RF engineering would require the local authorities to have some level of control over the region they want to shut down.

Thus, the authorities must not have that control.

I agree with the commenter from a technical perspective. It's extremely easy to cut off SpaceX terminals in some area if you control that area.

I just don't think that's relevant. It's not the local authorities the rest of the world is lining up behind, it's the regional players around Myanmar. The regional players can countenance the local authorities only slightly more than the warlords and gang leaders. What the local authorities want is almost completely irrelevant to the regional players.
by bayindirh | 2025-10-23 13:54:48+00:00
I feel that I need to clarify my stance on space exploration.

As a scientist, I believe that we should go places and look closer to understand and know. However, with the current hubris, this endeavor is not a result of curiosity, but of greed, hence my opposition to "we will do it, because we can do it".

Moreover, colonizing other planets as a solution to global warming and other catastrophes we might be heading into shows that the people who wish to do this didn't learn anything from our species' collective mistakes.

Seeing a planet as a plastic water bottle which can be crumpled and thrown to a trash bin, then getting another one when feeling thirsty is not a healthy perspective to have. Consumerism with no bounds is not sustainable at any capacity. This should be stopped.

As a person, I did my fair share of my mistakes on that front, but I also see that consuming less (from water bottles to planets) is possible, and I'm trying to do my best to reduce what I consume and recycle (mostly glass and metal).

Oh, if we can be absolutely sure that Mars has no life on it, building a lab for more sophisticated experiments is something I can support, but I'll be still wary of allowing contamination of Mars in uncontrolled way.

We can be gentle.
by JeffMcCune | 2025-10-23 13:54:54+00:00
This is not accurate. I filed a claim against Bungalow in Oregon. They petitioned the judge to allow their in house attorney I was dealing with to represent them. The judge denied the request citing the Oregon statute that attorneys may not participate in small claims proceedings. Bungalow flew out their director of some division who was ill prepared.

Slam dunk. took all of 6-8 hours of my time end to end. The claim was a single page document. Got the max award allowable. Would have got more had it been California.

55.090 Appearance by parties and attorneys; witnesses. (1) Except as may otherwise be provided by ORS 55.040, no attorney at law nor any person other than the plaintiff and defendant shall become involved in or in any manner interfere with the prosecution or defense of the litigation in the department without the consent of the justice of the justice court, nor shall it be necessary to summon witnesses.
by lucideer | 2025-10-23 13:55:06+00:00
> mitigating false positives

First & foremost I really need to emphasise that, despite the misleading article title, this was not a false positive. Google flagged this domain for legitimate reasons.

I think there's likely a conversation to be had about messaging - Chrome's warning page seems a little scarier than it should be, Firefox's is more measured in its messaging. But in terms of the API service Google are providing here this is absolutely not a false positive.

The rest of your comment seems to be an analoy about people not being responsible for protecting their home or something, I'm not quite sure. If you leave your apartment unlocked when you go out & a thief steals your housemate's laptop, is your housemate required to exclusively focus on the thief or should they be permitted to request you to be more diligent about locking doors?
by usrbinenv | 2025-10-23 13:55:07+00:00
I really love D, it's one of my favorite languages. I've started implementing a vim-like text editor in it from scratch (using only Raylib as a dependency) and was surprised how far I was able to get and how good my test coverage was for it. My personal favorite features of D:

* unit tests anywhere, so I usually write my methods/functions with unit tests following them immediately

* blocks like version(unittest) {} makes it easy to exclude/include things that should only be compiled for testing

* enums, unions, asserts, contract programming are all great

I would say I didn't have to learn D much. Whatever I wanted to do with it, I would find in its docs or asked ChatGPT and there would always be a very nice way to do things.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-23 13:56:05+00:00
Protobuf is pretty much ASN.1 with better tooling, optimized for message exchange protocol rather than files, when it comes down to the details. Withouth ASN.1 and the lessons learned from it, another binary serialization protocol would've probably taken its place, and I bet Protobuf and similar tools would look and perhaps work quite differently. The same way JSON would look and act quite differently if XML had never been invented.
The backlash to the AI and Tech alliance with Trump
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-10-23 13:56:16+00:00
Since AI and SV are now so tightly coupled to the Trump agenda, if he ever ends up leaving office, what will the consequences and backlash. be. His popularity has been tanking in October. I mean, definitely people won't forget this or let it slide assuming that he doesn't set up rule for life.
by audelair | 2025-10-23 13:57:43+00:00
But the messages are accessible by every open standard: POP, IMAP, JMAP. You can also pick your storage backend, your database backend, your full text/search tool or provider, directory backend. It is amazingly versatile.

Between all the options, you can design incremental backups, snapshots, or whatever with 3rd party tools to write a script to backup your mailboxes to be restorable in any other email service or software. I have tested it with rsync, restic, database dumps, mc/aws-cli depending on the backends used, of which I have tried them all, and found it designed to be very straightforward.

The monolithic aspect is a necessary aspect of being built for HA and distributed environments that it is all the more impressive how versatile it is.
by JonChesterfield | 2025-10-23 13:58:10+00:00
Yeah. Spectral's CTO is still the #2 contributor to that, https://github.com/ROCm/HIPIFY/graphs/contributors. They tried really hard to make hipify work before accepting that forking clang was necessary. I thought I had an issue raised about hipify needing cuda's own headers to run but I can't find it now.
by zero_k | 2025-10-23 13:58:37+00:00
Wait, is this another algorithm where they didn't bother even cursorily looking at the classical algorithm for even a minute, then compare it with their stuff? Last time they pulled this, it was my field, and I could only laugh. Just stop this nonsense and start doing some real work. Yeah, I know their "work" seems to be "how to extract money using buzzwords" but it's getting tiring, and I don't consider that "work".
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-23 13:58:48+00:00
The light and often even the sign itself are typically considered informational aids rather than strict determinants of legality. The driver is expected to comply with all the nitpicky details of the law regardless of whether the bulb is burned out or the school schedule changes.

Needless to say, most people regularly violate some kind of traffic law, we just don't enforce it.
by toss1 | 2025-10-23 13:59:03+00:00
That is definitely an "It Depends"

It depends a lot on who they are shooting

If they are shooting irrelevant and innocent civilians (with the goal of introducing broader fear in the population to somehow change their minds), then definitely terrorists.

If they are shooting only govt/regime military/police/enforcers or officials, much more like an opposing power.
by kaitai | 2025-10-23 13:59:04+00:00
It is not only about labor prices being high enough (creating consumers who can buy more). There is a significant religious component to the introduction of fixed pricing. Quakers are often credited with introducing fixed pricing in the Western world, because they felt that charging higher prices to those less able to haggle (or higher prices by age, gender, race) was immoral, dishonest in the eyes of God. They then experienced greater sales because you could send your kid to the store and trust the kid wouldn't get ripped off. It just took a layer of stress off going to the store. John Wanamaker (a Presbyterian?) I think is the one who really started a retail empire on fixed pricing. One of his main selling points was one price for anyone, and a fair return policy.

The behavioral economics here is that many people will pay a consistent (fair) price to not be surprised and not feel ripped off.

Agree that automation will engage in price discrimination whenever possible. When will we see the backlash? I have heard stories of outrage ("when I looked for airline tickets at work they were way cheaper than when I looked on my home laptop!") but we haven't seen a widespread reaction, and the moral aspect seems to be relatively overlooked at this time.
by kkukshtel | 2025-10-23 13:59:28+00:00
The space is being actively developed but it also requires you know where to look.

This is a journal that tracks a lot of new abstract stuff: https://www.abstractgames.org/

Notable recent releases:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/352238/turncoats

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2655/hive

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/272380/shobu

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/430875/high-tide