MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brailsafe | 2025-10-10 21:58:18+00:00
The nature of the non-transaction was such that they were given access to a service that was constrained in certain ways. They used the service, and the constraints that AC technically applied still applied. They used what was available to them under the constraints and weren't required to pay for any other service but the removal of the constraints. I don't see how any theft occurred.

Likewise illegality is just a boring and simple way to dismiss someone on moral grounds, but laws are only as effective as the level of agreement people have with them. Drinking in the park is technically illegal, but I don't care, the police don't care, nobody cares, unless someone needs to care, and I'm going to do it anyway, because the law does not make drinking in the park inherently wrong, it just provides a framework for telling you to stop if you're interfering with others in a way that relates to alcohol consumption.
by throw_a_grenade | 2025-10-10 21:58:43+00:00
Re: (2): There's a difference between sailplanes and gliders. Sailplanes are gliders that can “soar”, i.e. gain altitude just from the air that is moving up for some reason. Your friends have licence that says „Sailplane Pilot Licence”, not „Glider”.

The distinction is less pronounced nowadays, because there is no mondern aircraft designed as gliders-but-not-sailplanes, but historically there were planes that fit this niche, mostly military transport of WW1 and WW2 vintage.

Passenger jets (with engines turned off) are relatively decent gliders, but incapable of soaring. So no, you can't get more that about 20:1 glide ratio no matter how good is the weather (for sailplanes).
by joshheyse | 2025-10-10 21:59:00+00:00
I’m guessing the speeds were slow because QOS was limiting the slowed for what was speed to be a chat only connection.

What not just spoof the MAC address of “machine” that has paid.

I had written a utility that monitors MAC address on the network and tries them each until it finds on that is allowed.

Looks like someone released an app to do just that.

https://github.com/t-mullen/wififox
by kajkojednojajko | 2025-10-10 21:59:15+00:00
There's a neat mental model that there are four kinds of documentation: tutorials, how-to guides, explanation, and reference.

I think that examples fit into the first or the second kind; I'm not too concerned which category they belong to, because the point is that all kinds all have their place.

Source: https://docs.divio.com/documentation-system/ - someone has already linked it in another comment, but I think it's worth replying because the comments in this thread are arguing about which kind they like the most.
by bariumbitmap | 2025-10-10 21:59:29+00:00
> You can make a Dubai Lamp just adding suitable capacitor to the line.

Make a low-power Dubai-style lamp from any LED lamp by adding a single capacitor? Surely you must be jesting. Where in the circuit do you propose to add this capacitor to reduce power? How would this differ for a capacitive dropper circuit versus a switching regulator? How practical is this given that most LED bulbs cannot be disassembled non-destructively?

Perhaps you are thinking of replacing the current-limiting capacitor in a capacitive dropper lamp with a smaller value:

> This is the bit we want to change. At the moment it's a 330 nano Farad capacitor rated at 400V to allow for the peak voltage of our UK 230V supply. I'm going to change it for a 100nF capacitor that will effectively pass less than a third of the current.

https://www.bigclive.com/ledlmp.htm

I'd like to point out that this only works in lamps with this design and where the components are accessible for desoldering. You have to do this to a new bulb before it stresses the components, but doing so will void the manufacturer's warranty. Also:

> This project involves modifying a mains powered product that was probably built badly in the first place. As such it carries the risk of shock, fire and explosive underpant soiling even when done properly.

This kind of design, with an accessible capacitor in a regular PCB, was relatively common in cheap LED lamps 5-10 years ago but things have changed a lot since then. Most modern lamps require destructive disassembly to access these components and have aluminum PCBs that act as heatsinks, making desoldering impractical. However you can sometimes do things like removing one of the current sensing resistors with diagonal cutters to reduce the power:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HTa2jVi_rc

But the biggest problem with this kind of component-level hack to make a Dubai-style low-power lamp is you now have a light that is significantly dimmer than you started with! I alluded to this when I said the Dubai lamp series tops out at 3 W / 600 lumens when I want a lamp in the 800-880 lumen range. And the 600 lumen Dubai lamp already uses 12 LED filaments, so you'd need something like 16 filaments in a single bulb to approach that 800 lumen range. Where do you propose to find such a lamp?
by smcin | 2025-10-10 21:59:41+00:00
> Don't know how GoodRx works, but been around long enough to know you're probably the product.

- GoodRx was penalized $1.5m by the FTC 2/2023 [0] for sharing sensitive personal health information with third-party advertising companies (Facebook, Google, et al), without user consent. Then in 2024 it paid a $25m settlement arising from that action [1].

- GoodRx isn't subject to HIPAA, it can legally share "non-medical" information, i.e. your prescriptions, which often have a one-to-one (or one-to-few) correspondence to specific conditions. Hence, sidestepping HIPAA.

- its business model relies on collecting user data, which may be a concern for privacy-conscious individuals.

[0]: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/02/...

[1]: https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-information-security-law/...
by hatthew | 2025-10-10 21:59:52+00:00
I think this is almost provably true, for the simple reason that detailed technical documentation can be a substitute for examples, but the reverse isn't true.

1. If you want an example and the docs have an example, great.

2. If you want technical details and the docs have technical details, great.

3. If you want an example but the docs only have technical details, you can still get what you want by spending longer to read and understand the documentation. It's inefficient but it works. Third party examples are also frequently available.

4. If you want technical details but the docs only have examples, you're SOL. You have to hope that the code is available and readable, or just try stuff and hope it works. Third party technical details are rare.
by dhosek | 2025-10-10 22:00:08+00:00
I’ve made a conscious decision to not do streaming services. Having all the music is not much different than having no music at all. I don’t even want all of my own music on my phone. Instead, I use a set of smart playlists to give me a changing selection of songs based on ratings, how long it’s been since I last heard a song and how new the music is in my library.
by kulahan | 2025-10-10 22:00:28+00:00
I've never been super into music listening, though I do love singing. I'm curious what you think is important about this difference in approach. The idea doesn't come naturally to me - probably for the same reason intentional listening sounds more like a chore to me.

I want to be clear I'm not poo-pooing on the idea! I just can't connect with it personally, and if you're that into the topic, I figured you might have good insight into this idea, at least from a personal perspective :)
by thadt | 2025-10-10 22:00:33+00:00
For those in the know about such matters, where is the secret, community audited Rust supply chain?

Let's say I want to start a new project in Rust that needs to touch web services for some reason. The standard answer today is "just use crate <X>." But lets say that I'm security sensitive and spooked by how easy it appears to compromise open source dependencies in 2025.

So I thought, "well, Signal is the gold standard for security and open source - let's see what they do". Libsignal's 'Cargo.lock' has 599 packages in it. Is someone at Signal auditing all of those (and monitoring them for updates)? I see many well established shops using Rust with dependencies - I assume they're vendoring them internally and running them through their own reviews. Is that what everyone does? Or am I just being overly paranoid about the breadth of the dependency chain for what everyone relies on for being one of the most secure messaging clients?
by nithish95 | 2025-10-10 22:01:11+00:00
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by bgwalter | 2025-10-10 22:01:28+00:00
Apparently Stargate's backers are connected to Thiel. Kargieman founded Satellogic and Sur Energy, which is involved in the Stargate deal.

Satellogic is Palantir spyware: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-04/palantir-...

So that data center probably will be used to analyze U.S. citizen's data outside the U.S., in the best tradition of many such ventures (five eyes spying on U.S. citizens to circumvent U.S. laws).

“This milestone goes beyond infrastructure. It's about putting artificial intelligence in the hands of people across Argentina,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, in a press release.

Oh sure, great that Trump, Milei and their backers have arranged another deal for "Open" "AI".
by famouswaffles | 2025-10-10 22:01:52+00:00
>I'm not sure if "on the API" here means "the LLM and nothing else." This is important because it's easy to overestimate the algorithm when you give it credit for work it didn't actually do.

That's what I mean yes. There is no tool use for I what I mentioned.

>1. "Reasoning" that includes algebra, syllogisms, deduction, etc. involves certain processes for reaching an answer. Getting a "good" answer through another route (like an informed guess) is not equivalent.

Again if you cannot confirm that these 'certain processes' are present when humans do it but not when LLMs do it then your 'processes' might as well be made up.

And unless you concede humans are also not performing 'true algebra' or 'true reasoning', then your position is not even logically consistent. You can't eat your cake and have it.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-10 22:02:04+00:00
What gets me about it is that it is just a lot of random vandalism of the UI without really looking like anything. The clock on my phone looks like it had anti-anti aliasing applied to it. Most of the contrast got drained out of the settings button but only the settings button. It doesn’t look like they had a vision for what it should look like but instead they just let some random check some random stuff into their source control.
by skopje | 2025-10-10 22:02:46+00:00
I did the same on Tahoe and now the formerly glass buttons are grey with a weird blue shadow in the upper left. One example: the sound slider on the menu bar. With all the GFX turned on, it is a transparent blob, with the reduced settings, it's just a weird gray with a nonsensical shadow.

I'd really, really love to read internal presentations leading up to this downgrade of a once proud UI (let's hear it for System 7) to what is now effectively a collection childish digital baubles.
by raggi | 2025-10-10 22:02:47+00:00
it's 317 unique crates, some of which are internal

305 with helix- removed 258 with gix removed (git stuff in multiple packages from a single upstream group) 240 with windows api wrappers removed. 170 if you remove all subprojects (split on -/_ taking first field, then uniq).

what's left?

fast math and various hashes backtrace utils various build utils some allocators, zero copy facilities, mmap and structures like lrus time and date handling character maps / internationalization concurrency libraries (futures, runtime, etc) cross platform path & directory helpers support for general unix platforms, for redox, for linux, for windows logging infrastructure some compression libraries markdown various testing helpers rope string representation shell lexer and utils terminal interaction models toml wasm & wasi

compared to neovim, which is hard to determine because c & cmake toolchains are a bit of a shitshow to figure out, but lets take a look at maybe debian, that says 34 package dependencies downstream. The list is clearly missing a bunch of the toolchain, has limited portability and so on, but certainly shorter at 34 - for a single platform. Note also that neovim bundles several dependencies (e.g. markdown and so on - so they're "hidden" (almost surprising debian hasn't done their usual trick of insisting this isn't hidden))

so where's the rest? well the rest is in the project: tokei says helix contains 132kloc. tokei says neovim contains 984kloc.

so round a little and you get: helix has an order of magnitude more dependencies, but also an order of magnitude less code than neovim.

while I'm sympathetic to concerns around dependency bloat, particularly with an eye to the js ecosystem and supply chain security, it's important to look through the right lens - when the functionality is fairly closely equivalent (there are differences, helix has a lot more modern features, vim has a lot more traditional text manipulation and unixy integration features), and there's an order of magnitude tradeoff in both directions - this is likely demonstration of fairly effective code sharing in helix.

there are important supply chain safety techniques required when using a wide number of disparately owned dependencies. there are also important supply chain safety techniques required when managing a wide number of disparately owned sub-directories of a larger project. there could just as well be a needle in neovims vimscript haystack as there is in helix dependency stack, i can tell you now though, as i'm familiar with almost all of helix dependencies i've put eyes over their code at least once, there's almost certainly been more eyes on helix deps recently than on neovims vimscript - though eye's passing over don't always catch things either of course.
by jvanderbot | 2025-10-10 22:02:55+00:00
More about the framing - if you posted ai imagery in a "cool imagery" sub, you'd probably be fine. If you posted it in a painting sub, that's probably no bueno.

I came to HN for "cool software" and "software as a craft/art", but they are being muddled here with a blanket ShowHN type demo.
by lyu07282 | 2025-10-10 22:03:01+00:00
Some US billionaires/soon trillionaires have already announced their intention to "help" the EU and UK far-right to win elections, to liberate them from democracy I suppose:

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-far-right-germany-england...

Probably a big driving force behind those new rules as well.

That's why the far-right frames this as overregulation, it directly impacts them.
by kevinsundar | 2025-10-10 22:03:13+00:00
You can actually swipe up from the search field at the bottom and that will show all tabs. (If anyone is reading this from apple, that animation should be sped up).

However, this doesn't work if you've scrolled down already and the bar is minimized. It literally flashes as if to acknowledge your swipe and does nothing.

Also if you miss by moving your thumb just slightly lower, you'll close the app haha.

They thought about it a bit, but definitely not enough.
by whycome | 2025-10-10 22:03:17+00:00
It’s terrible from a UX standpoint. By definition, translucent elements present more potential information to a user. It makes it harder to parse certain screens. It’s a nightmare if you have subtle vision issues (where it’s not bad enough you’d need to enable accessibility options). You’re not going to “get used to it” — you’re really just adapting to a crippled interface.

I think it all stems from trying to unify the UX/UI across devices, and to also pull the Vision VR device into that iphone-iPad-MacBook-watch grouping. Handoff and other cross-device interactions suffer when you have significantly different UI elements or interactions.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-10 22:04:03+00:00
Muky looks awesome for younger kids. The integration with Spotify seems really well thought out, and I like the 'iOS 16' feature!

I'm not in the target market for this, but I've heard other parents wish for a way to curate their kids' YouTube experience. For example restricting them to certain pre-approved channels. I wonder if there's a clever way to do that with a companion app, like you've done with Muky/Spotify.
by keeganpoppen | 2025-10-10 22:04:38+00:00
uhhh my office is fancy because i spend more money than i can afford on techno-gadgets-- a common nerd affliction that has nothing to do with conspicuous consumption, as you seem to feel the need to imply with essentially no justification. and if the proof were so goddamn easy, you'd think you'd just go ahead and just type it out, because then we could all go home after i give you my rubber QED stamp of approval... for someone as pedantic as you seem to be, you really seem to have an abusive relationship with the english language. apparently someone having a bunch of the computers in their office because they are a hoarder nerd makes them bourgeois.
by id00 | 2025-10-10 22:04:54+00:00
All these threads about iOS 26 reminded me about something long forgotten like... the release of iOS

I suggest to check the comments in this 12 years old thread [1], replace version number 7 with 26 there and realise that some things never change

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5856398
by sehugg | 2025-10-10 22:05:14+00:00
My least favorite animation is in Mobile Safari, when you tap the search bar and it expands and brings up the controls at the bottom. There's a sort of shiny sweep transition from top to bottom, but it's distracting and it's not obvious why it exists. I assume it's to highlight the bottom control bar, but that's just a guess.

I also notice that CarPlay has more contrast now, and not much Liquid Glass. Kinda telling.
by zem | 2025-10-10 22:05:27+00:00
it depends strongly on why you want to write open source. if you like the idea of putting source code out into the world for other people to use and benefit from then go ahead and use whatever mix of open source and proprietary code you like, just be up front that that's what you are doing.

if you want to promise open source software simply to attract the mindshare and users who habitually ignore anything that isn't open source, trying to capture financial value may well be infeasible unless some rare confluence of stars lines up for you. the key is in the word "capture" - capturing the value implies making sure it goes to you rather than to someone else, and that means imposing restrictions that will simply piss those same users off.
by exasperaited | 2025-10-10 22:05:32+00:00
> (Admittedly I don't have any accessibility issues which may come up for others)

Yet.

This design is really punitive for older, tireder eyes and they really need to learn not to do this. Because their audience gets older all the time (as the population in all western countries does).

Their design team is evidently skewed young again, and needs to really learn about how ageing affects eyesight for absolutely everyone. It is insane to put everyone over about 50 into an accessibility category, but eyesight ageing is one of the things that can't be held back.
by yesfitz | 2025-10-10 22:05:43+00:00
I think Mr. Sanger is writing from a place of familiarity with Wikipedia at the highest levels. Many of the things he criticizes may negatively impact the functions at the top, but make the on-ramps and experience at the bottom fantastic.

I am not a frequent Wikipedia contributor in the least, but have been friends with some in highschool, college, and through to today, so I have some familiarity with the rules and culture.

Nine theses deserve at least nine responses:

1. At the top level, consensus breaks, but if you look at Wikipedia from the bottom up, it is a collection of research and publishing decisions reached by consensus.

2. Competing articles is a ridiculous idea for a publication whose goal is to be neutral and factual. If the wikipedians are the problem, it's never been easier to publish your own research either in another wiki or just a blog post.

3. The list itself says it is specifically not a list of banned sources, although I'm sure it's referenced as more of an authority than it should be.

4. The current neutrality policy and guide on writing from a neutral point-of-view is battle-tested, growing from the original neutrality policy. Almost like case law in modern legal systems.

5. No argument here. Maybe Ms. Frizzle's motto from The Magic Schoolbus would be a better fit. "Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!"

6. Deanonymization is another point that's fine at the top level, but breaks down where the real work happens. When the expectation is that "real" editors use their real identity, that will trickle down to the rest, which will have a chilling effect.

7. Public rating of articles exists and it's called the "Edit" button. If you think an article is bad, the only way to fix it is to fix it. And you're empowered to do so, even without an account.

8. Having been a moderator on a handful of platforms over the years (never Wikipedia), if you need to ban someone, they should probably be banned indefinitely. Review is not necessary. If you've stopped the bannable behavior, you can 100% come back with a different account, and no one will hunt you down for ban evasion.

9. An elected legislature sounds fine for another project. The current state of popular elections and representative democracy in the real world doesn't make me too hopeful that it's a great solution to alleged mismanagement (unless of course you want your side to be the ones mismanaging things.)