MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-03 03:39:11+00:00
> But Israel prosecuting the war as it has is permanently debilitating its long-term security and economic prospects.

If the economic prospects are being debilitated, it is only because people are actually believing in the narrative that Hamas has hoped they’d be manipulated into believing, through a sustained campaign of disruptive rioting and propaganda - all while trying to not talk about the decades-long rocket attacks, the murder/rape of October 7, etc. But it’s silly for the world to fall for this narrative when it is clear who the aggressors are. Only one of these parties fundamentally believes in genocide of the other party - and that’s Hamas, per their own statements about their goals.

As for the long-term security - this I am not clear on. Why do you think Israel’s security has been reduced? I think it will be very hard for Hamas to regroup quickly to the extent that it has been built up previously (especially thanks to Qatar’s help). But if left alone rather than stamped out, I think eventually they will build up strength and in 20 years we’ll have the next October 7. I think Israel’s only choice is to put a definitive end to Islamic terrorism.
by safety1st | 2025-10-03 03:39:18+00:00
While I agree that bad pushups are better than no pushups until you fix them, your first paragraph is misinformation. Anatomy is a 2,000 year old science, not a personal opinion. As a point of fact, if someone flares out their elbows when doing pushups, this will cause two things. #1, it will increase recruitment of the chest muscles at the expense of the triceps, which isn't necessarily a problem. But #2, it will place stress on the shoulder joints, and over time, this can lead to shoulder injuries.

There is no good reason to do pushups in a way that will cause joint problems. If you want to build your chest with pushups, the answer is wide grip pushups, not flared elbows. Your parent may find they are quite good at wide grip pushups, this is common because the chest muscles are bigger and stronger than the triceps.

Given sufficient time, a trainer worth their salt will teach you to develop every muscle. They might very well have you do wide grip. But there are definitely incorrect exercises, those are the ones that harm you. Dead lifting with rounded shoulders is a classic example, lots of people ruin their back doing this. I do both standard and wide grip push-ups. Though personally to build the chest I prefer the bench and other forms of chest press.
by Meatpropeller | 2025-10-03 03:39:34+00:00
Silicones are common food additives, including use as an anti-foaming agent in frying oil. If you are trying to avoid them, you may rethink having those fries next time you are at the drive through.

They are also used almost everywhere around us... shampoos, lotions, cleaning agents, cosmetics, medical implants, electronics, lubricants, etc. It seems a few ppm improves every kind of product.
by YZF | 2025-10-03 03:39:53+00:00
If that solved the problem I would endorse it. I don't see how it does or how you do it.

How do you get food to all of Gaza while there is raging fighting? The biggest problem is in Gaza city where there is intense fighting. The southern areas have a lot more food. How do we flood Gaza city with food? Ceasefire? We had one. Then what?

Let's plan this in more detail. Who is going to distribute the food in Gaza? Who in Gaza has weapons and control? How is the hostage problem resolved? How do we get Hamas to not rule over Gaza any more?
by smrq | 2025-10-03 03:39:58+00:00
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by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-03 03:40:19+00:00
I again claim: many more problems arise from doing nothing and getting really out of shape, rather than from doing one of the "wrong" things. You know several people that have been injured, i don’t doubt this. But in the US, 40% of adults are obese[1]. Europe is better but still bad (~20%).

[1] https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...
Ask HN: Professional Alternative to Namecheap
by raasdnil | 2025-10-03 03:40:56+00:00
Recently we had an outage where a domain name expired - we didn't get a warning that it expired due to various factors but it highlighted a freaking major flaw in our systems.

Now, we are fixing it internally, but our current registration provider is namecheap (is hosted on dnsimple) for this domain, which "helpfully" put up a parking page when the site expired which meant some of our client websites were being redirected to their competitors! <facepalm />

So question, who do you use for professional domain name registration where this sort of parking page stupidity can be avoided? A company that will call you if a domain name is going to blow up and if there is an expiration, someone that will set the refresh to 60 seconds and contact us?
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-03 03:41:11+00:00
The source of the food scarcity being discussed started on Oct 7th though when the government of Gaza chose to kill over 1000 people, maim/injure/torture/rape thousands more, and kidnap many (including the approx. 6 year old girl they posted videos on the internet of themselves kidnapping from her house, they were so proud they posted video of kidnapping a little girl from her home). That all happened starting Oct 7th.
by culi | 2025-10-03 03:41:24+00:00
About 22% of Israel is orthodox and about 13% can be called "ultra-orthodox".

They play a major role in politics. Most prominently and recently, the 8-decade long exemption from the draft for Haredi Jewish people was ended causing a major crisis in Israel's government. All Haredi representatives of the Knesset withdrew leaving Netanyahu's party's majority with a razor thin margin of 61 seats in the 120-seat Knesset
by 633212490 | 2025-10-03 03:42:23+00:00
Using PGP over self-hosted email servers won't help you against a post-quantum adversary. While people have discussed post-quantum extensions to PGP, it doesn't exist yet. Similarly, while post-quantum TLS _does_ exist, it was only just implemented in OpenSSL; I doubt Postfix supports it yet.

So you're in an even worse post-quantum situation with email, even if you end up with TLS-encrypted PGP-encrypted messages, you're still not post-quantum secure.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-10-03 03:43:15+00:00
> Growth is not representative of the entire economy

Our entire economy is based on debt, it cannot function without growth. This is demonstrated by the fact that:

> in fact the highest sector, which is finance only makes up 21% of the US economy

Every cent earned by the finance sector boils down from being derived from debt (i.e. growth has to pay it off). You just pointed out the largest sector of our economy relies on rapid growth, and the majority of growth right now is coming from AI. AI, therefore, cannot derive the majority of it's value by cannibalizing the growth of other sectors because no other sector has sufficient growth the fund both AI, itself and the debt that needs to be repaid to make the entire thing make sense.
by KraftyOne | 2025-10-03 03:44:11+00:00
Yes, in any durability framework there's still the possibility that a process crashes mid-step, in which case you have no choice but to restart the step.

Where DBOS really shines (vs. Temporal and other workflow systems) is a radically simpler operational model--it's just a library you can install in your app instead of a big heavyweight cluster you have to rearchitect your app to work with. This blog post goes into more detail: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/durable-execution-coding-compariso...
by lvspiff | 2025-10-03 03:44:19+00:00
Wife has a guide dog Labrador trained from a puppy incredibly well behaved and when on harness total worker focused and its interesting what she does and doesnt play with when not working. She has a stuffed animal that she sleeps with and never carries anywhere then another that she does. She loves a donut nylabone but not a bone shaped one. Shes also learned that there are toys she can bring over like a tennis ball to you that will distract YOU and therefor she can get a sneak of a lick off your plate. We’ve had to correct that a few times but she is just too smart she keeps learning new methods.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-03 03:44:22+00:00
Not really.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... - Not even 3 full pages worth over the past 5 years, though the first page is entirely from this year. It's maybe 2-3 a month on average this year, and a lot are dupes.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... - Nim, for comparison, which doesn't really make a dent in the programming world but shows up a lot. The first 15 pages covers the same time period.
by ajkjk | 2025-10-03 03:44:31+00:00
This is kinda sad to hear because I think it's more-or-less an immutable fact that, barring disabilities/injuries, anyone can do pushups if they try every day for just a few weeks, and then you'd be off to the races. Actually it feels really good to have that part of your body start to "click"; a bit of a "this is right, I was built to feel strong here" feeling.

I think there's some widespread misconceptions about how "starting" an exercise is supposed to go. The problem is that starting out is nothing like doing them once you can do them. (In no sense am I an expert on this; I just have some intuition about it and have coached some friends through trying pushups when they couldn't.) There is a whole chain of muscles involved in the motion--actually, there are a bunch of different chains, because there are a bunch of different kinds of pushups that use different muscles. The thing that goes wrong is usually that there are some "weak links" in that chain: muscles you've never really used before, and maybe don't even know how to activate. The actual pushup motion, the one you see people do online or whatever, is not really possible until you have these muscles linked up. It's just not going to happen. Maybe you'll eke out one with tremendous effort, but it won't look or feel like the pushups other people do.

Instead the way to start is to do anything at all that feels doable but a bit hard in that position. Yoga positions like down and up dog are great. Staying in a plank for a bit is great. Play around with the arms in different positions. Go down just a little bit but don't stay down. Etc. If you do things like this for 5 minutes a day, just pushing yourself to find things that feel tough each time, I think you will be able to do a proper pushup in 2-3 weeks. The thing to keep in mind is that the goal is to learn how your shoulders, chest, and back work together. For example, instead of putting your elbows out wide and trying to stay up but falling--try narrow elbows and then shove the ground as if are pushing a heavy grocery cart. Or, stay on vertical arms but rock forward and back. Or, stay on your elbows, but lift your feet up on something. Whatever is hard but doable.

(This is all 100% vibes, I don't know anything about anatomy or fitness. But I'm pretty sure it works.)

(Mostly I have coached people on the mindset about starting exercises with regard to climbing and particularly pullups. New climbers tend to not understand that there is just no way they're going to do a whole pullup if they can't do the first quarter second of the pullup, which is the hardest part, due to the awkward angle of your arm and shoulder giving a mechanical advantage particularly when you don't have much lats/scapular muscle. So train that first! They tend to cheat that part instead of working on it and don't understand why they're not making progress.)
by hackingonempty | 2025-10-03 03:44:57+00:00
> It October 7th had been limited to military bases, the hostages IDF soldiers, this would be a very different conflict.

The same thing happened when Hamas attacked an IDF post and captured a soldier, Gilad Shalit. There were multiple invasions by Israel, including "Cast Lead" which was described by the UN Fact Finding Mission as "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to force upon it an ever increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability."
by 9rx | 2025-10-03 03:45:06+00:00
> Actually, governments in the US rarely actually provided any capital to the railroads.

Did I, uh, miss a big news announcement today or something? Yesterday "around my parts" wasn't located in the US. It most definitely wasn't located in the US when said rail lines were built. Which you even picked up on when you recognized that the story about those lines couldn't have reasonably been about somewhere in the US. You ended on a pretty fun story so I guess there is that, but the segue into it wins the strangest thing ever posted to HN award. Congrats?
by in_cahoots | 2025-10-03 03:45:14+00:00
They see the same people but definitely don't get the same treatment. The insurance codes are different and the body of research is different. Putting $1 of research into genetic blindness does nothing for preventing astigmatism, even though patients may go to the same doctor.

Saying that everyone who goes to a therapist, or an oncologist gets the same treatment and therefore should be lumped together is absurd. Most other specialties are moving toward taxonomic differentiation, not away from it.
by beeflet | 2025-10-03 03:45:17+00:00
I have looked into developing a PWA. For starters:

1. Decent storage API. Last time I checked, there were serious limitations on the amount of storage you can use, especially in iOS

2. Mechanism for the user to save a certain . Analogous to saving and running a .exe and being able to compare the file hashes and run different versions of a file without the app developer's intent. This would include the ability to write and edit web apps from your device.

3. Some way of sending TCP/UDP packets directly, and doing port forwarding through UPnP.

4. Mechanism to run processes in the background, and for inter-app communication.

For example, you could not make a decent bittorrent app as a PWA. This is an example of an app which is prohibited on the app store despite having Apple having no legal basis for doing so.

I've often wondered if it would be possible to make some sort of "PWA Browser" that would give web apps hooks to some of this functionality, but it would probably get banned (There are no real rules on the app store, they can just ban you for whatever they want).
by MountDoom | 2025-10-03 03:45:24+00:00
Possibly, but I don't think that Microsoft apps have the kind of a foothold in the corporate world that they used to have.

Sure, if you join a bank or a government agency, or a big company that's been around for 40+ years, you're probably gonna be using Microsoft products. But the bulk of startups, schools, and small businesses use Google products nowadays.

Judging by their MX record, OpenAI is a Google shop... so is Perplexity... so is Anthropic... so is Mistral.
by leptons | 2025-10-03 03:45:49+00:00
>The Democratic Party is absolutely complicit in everything going on.

The Democrats simply have no power to stop anything going on. If you think they do, then you don't understand how the government works at all.

Every single thing you mention Democrats doing wrong, is because they have tried to compromise. If one side dictates what everyone else should do, you don't get a functioning country, you get a lot of dissent, and you know what - fucking forget it, you're just too lost to explain any of this to.

Have a nice day.
by geocar | 2025-10-03 03:45:55+00:00
Do you actually use this?

$ md5 How\ I\ Block\ All\ 26\ Million\ Of\ Your\ Curl\ Requests.html

MD5 (How I Block All 26 Million Of Your Curl Requests.html) = e114898baa410d15f0ff7f9f85cbcd9d

(downloaded with Safari)

$ curl https://foxmoss.com/blog/packet-filtering/ | md5sum e114898baa410d15f0ff7f9f85cbcd9d -

I'm aware of curl-impersonate https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate which works around these kinds of things (and makes working with cloudflare much nicer), but serious scrapers use chrome+usb keyboard/mouse gadget that you can ssh into so there's literally no evidence of mechanical means.

Also: If you serve some Anubis code without actually running the anubis script in the page, you'll get some answers back so there's at least one anubis-simulator running on the Internet that doesn't bother to actually run the JavaScript it's given.

Also also: 26M requests daily is only 300 requests per second and Apache could handle that easily over 15 years ago. Why worry about something as small as that?
by tstrimple | 2025-10-03 03:46:24+00:00
I don't necessarily disagree with your overall message. But I do think you're undercounting the number of folks who get injured through ignorance. And I don't even necessarily mean traumatic injury. Even just enough injury or soreness to discourage them from trying things again can be problematic enough. Is kicking your ceiling really a good measure of some sort of fitness? Is it worth the risk of slipping and cracking your head? I don't know. Maybe. But it's far more risk of injury than walking around the block a few times and the vast majority of people really just need to start there.
by jimmaswell | 2025-10-03 03:46:28+00:00
"We all know the answer to this question: never"

Absolute nonsense, I feel amazing after eating fast food. I generally just get a chicken sandwich or burger or snack wrap, no soda or fries, maybe a milkshake - why would I not feel great after eating protein and fat? Dairy feels great for me too. This has to be utter nocebo on part of anyone who's convinced fast food is killing them, there's no way the food itself has that effect. The demonization of fast food is nonsensical in general - a burger made at McDonald's is not nutritionally different in any significant way from one made at home.
by KraftyOne | 2025-10-03 03:46:36+00:00
The durability guarantees are similar--each workflow step is checkpointed, so if a workflow fails, it can recover from the last completed step.

The big difference, like that blog post (https://www.dbos.dev/blog/durable-execution-coding-compariso...) describes, is the operational model. DBOS is a library you can install into your app, whereas Temporal et al. require you to rearchitect your app to run on their workers and external orchestrator.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-03 03:47:50+00:00
The Gaza thread on HN last week was talking about how Israel needed to fit to norms. That Israel needed to be like the US in Germany. Which is what got me looking into numbers. I think it's relevant as the Allies in Germany are where the current norms come from.

The Red Cross considers 1500 the floor for the US: https://emergency.lacity.gov/sites/g/files/wph1791/files/202...

not that much to the minimal amount of 1400 the CNN article found occurring. Horrible I agree, but not that far off from the Red Cross floor for aid distribution with the USA.

The UN provides much less calories (currently 552 to refugees from Sudan's war) yet says it can provide more than Israel in aid Gaza. Is the UN anti Sudanese/Kenyans because it claims to have food for 2 million on hand yet won't feed the starving 800,000 in Kenya? If it has food for Gaza's 2 million that is isn't giving out, how can it justify not giving at least part of that to the smaller 800,000 war refugees in Kenya? The UN itself says it's a crime not to give out food in those higher quantities if there are stocks of it. The UN has stocks. The UN does not give those stocks out to those in need, only giving 552 calories.
by benatkin | 2025-10-03 03:47:53+00:00
> NOTE: Due to many WAFs employing JavaScript-level fingerprinting of web browsers, thermoptic also exposes hooks to utilize the browser for key steps of the scraping process. See this section for more information on this.

This reminds me of how Stripe does user tracking for fraude detection https://mtlynch.io/stripe-update/ I wonder if thermoptic could handle that.
by DiscourseFan | 2025-10-03 03:48:12+00:00
I'm currently one of those "management ppl" you are referring, or at least on track to be one, but I swear its not my fault! The industry pays a lot better than any other job I could swing, and my background is very relevant and I know for certain that some of these projects wouldn't run without me. And also, there is no "balance" here, being dorky or "autistic" does not make you a good programmer. There are many brilliant engineers who are also very sociable. Being able to work with others is an important skill and, all else being even, in a highly competitive industry having that kind of skill will get you ahead.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-03 03:48:40+00:00
It's sort of funny. His historical Antichrist stories covered here are basically about technocrats becoming the Antichrist. His contemporary take is that it's obviously not the technocrats, it'll be Greta Thunberg or someone like her. Someone who opposes technological development (to any degree) will be the Antichrist. So we must develop technology unfettered because the old stories of the Antichrist are irrelevant now for some reason.
by 01100011 | 2025-10-03 03:49:14+00:00
I'm saying Google is going to win. They're not beholden to their current architecture as much as other shovelmakers and can pivot their TPU to offer the best inference perf/$. They also hold about as much personal data as anyone else and have plenty of stuff to train on in-house. I work for a competitor and even I think there's a good chance google "wins"(there's never a winner because the race never ends).
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-03 03:50:42+00:00
There's a difference between having a view and spreading apologia for public consumption.

For example, surely anti-abolitionists' apologia made them more complicit in the continued institution of slavery than those who chose not to make excuses for it did, even if they themselves did not own or facilitate the sale of people.

We don't seem to have a problem with assigning some responsibility for abolition with abolitionists' own apologia, some of it still read in schools today.
by 01100011 | 2025-10-03 03:52:17+00:00
The one thing smaller companies might have is allocated power budgets from power companies. Part of the mad dash to build datacenters right now is just to claim the power so your competitors can't. Now I do think the established players hold an edge here, but I don't think OpenAI/Anthropic/etc are without some bargaining power(hah).