MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by meejah | 2025-10-06 18:32:23+00:00
Note, too, that you may run your own "transit helper" (code: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole-transit-rel... ) and then specify this via "wormhole --transit-helper tcp:<your host>:<port>" when doing a transfer.

You do need to run the helper on a public IP address, like a rented VPS for example.
by janalsncm | 2025-10-06 18:32:33+00:00
In theory you could accomplish this by combing through search history.

In practice, the scenario in OP is unlikely to be practical with search history alone. It’s much less convenient for CBP to ask someone to pull up their Google search history. And even if they did, it doesn’t work as well. Officers don’t have infinite time to assess every person.

So I would call it a new threat.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-10-06 18:32:49+00:00
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/SUNNIVA-BIFAZIAL-Complete-Inverte...

"SUNNIVA 920 W Balcony Power Station BIFAZIAL Full Black Complete Socket TSUN 800 W Inverter, PV Solar System, 2 x 460 W Glass/Glass Solar Modules, Includes 5 m Cable, Bluetooth WiFi, Complete Set"

Literally the first result that comes back for "balcony solar panel kit". 239 Euros with 4.2 star rating and > 200 purchase in the last month.

I can't vouch for this brand or kit but that's what comes up on top on amazon.de. Looks like some Chinese manufacturer, as you would expect. Plenty of pretty positive reviews in German with a few deployment photos. There are indeed a lot of solar panel related products on Amazon. It seems to be a popular product category.

You might get different results from outside Germany.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-10-06 18:33:13+00:00
Didn't a lot of people lose their houses because they bought a house with a mortgage payment they could absolutely afford with their income, and then got laid off when the economy contracted?

And, frankly, it's literally the bank's job not to make loans that people will default on too frequently (for their own sake), so if you're not exceptionally knowledgeable about banking, it's not unreasonable to trust your bank and their advisors not to make a loan you won't be able to pay back. Like, sure, you shouldn't trust them not to screw you on the terms and with interest, but banks mostly are trying to make loans they expect to get paid back, and I would personally expect them to have a good idea of how much they can trust me with.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-06 18:33:54+00:00
You shouldn't be evaluating your diagnosis and the effects of a drug upon it, to the point of advocacy, within hours.

Your perception that you have been helped is not coming from the drug, it's coming from the conditioning before you got to the point of trying it. I was willing to put up with a lot of bullshit that would have to be rolled back if RFK just stopped prescription drug advertisements, which are definition targeted to the weakest people in their weakest moments, but that immediately disappeared from the agenda.
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-10-06 18:34:07+00:00
> It's not a send once and forget kind of thing, like XMPP, Signal and email. It's about keeping your chats synced on your server, and with any other server you happen to be federating with. It's Discord or Slack, except federated. That's not easy, and it's not simple, but it has huge advantages too.

And huge disadvantages. I don't understand why everything has to be centralized/ routed through an intermediary. Well I do understand it, modern big corps wants to be that intermediary for various reasons, but thats a business reason not a technical one.
by gruez | 2025-10-06 18:34:08+00:00
>I think we're already in stagflation but no one wants to be the person who calls it.

Most things you described is inflation, not stagflation. The point about the minimum wage is a red herring because virtually nobody gets paid the federal minimum wage. Moreover contrary to many people believe, inflation has not been outpacing wage growth in the US:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
by smsm42 | 2025-10-06 18:34:08+00:00
I don't doubt that, I just think when throwing around million-sized numbers it is necessary to be aware that these numbers are not describing one case, they describe a lot of different cases. There were a lot of people that were hurt by the subprime fallout (myself included, though I did not lose a home because I could not afford one at the time anyway) and also a lot of people engaging in absolutely reckless speculation (which also was one of the reasons why I was not able to afford a home at the time). There's more than one side to that picture, and some of the people who gut hurt were also the people who made it possible to get that crazy in the first place.
by triceratops | 2025-10-06 18:34:36+00:00
I'm not saying it applies here but isn't that the central thesis of The Innovator's Dilemma? Companies ignore new threats to their business model because changing would make them less profitable in the short term. The implication is reduced profitability, even in the short-term, even to pivot the business to better future opportunities, is painful to management so they avoid it.

In Apple's case cars are far afield from their normal expertise, which is computing. Cars are already a low-margin product for most of the industry. Apple's management may have decided they could be better off not participating at all. Or buying a non-controlling stake in some other EV or car company instead of distracting management with a completely alien business and product line.
by bojan | 2025-10-06 18:34:37+00:00
> Because then the question arises: What if the current way of handling labor protection in the EU (as one of many components) leads to destroying yours and everyone elses standard of living, simply because it's unaffordable?

It's quite an assumption that it's unaffordable. In the last decades efficiency has been only increasing, but working hours per week aren't significantly going down nor are the salaries noticeably higher.

Where does all the extra efficiency go to? It's pretty ok in my book if it goes to social security.
by felixhandte | 2025-10-06 18:34:57+00:00
In addition to open-sourcing the code today, we also published:

- A white paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03203

- A blog post: https://engineering.fb.com/2025/10/06/developer-tools/openzl...

- The documentation website: https://openzl.org/
by Telaneo | 2025-10-06 18:35:01+00:00
> I'm sure many would take 30ms input latency and 408p over no games at all,

Or they could pirate some games, or borrow a friend's Steam library with Steam family, and get a much better experience than enshittified Game Pass would be. That's a lot better than no games, and unless you're desperate for Call of Duty 69: Unicorn Madness, probably the better bet. Unless they somehow only have an Xbox Series X and no PC, but that seems like an odd choice for someone without the money to buy games wholesale or pay for Game Pass.
by samrus | 2025-10-06 18:35:44+00:00
100%

We are in the era of people using geolocation to remind them about their grocery list when they're near a store. In 10 years we will be in the gps and uber era.

Its just that it will be bumpy when this bubble crashes. And the US isnt as stable and sane as it used to be. I wonder if the economy can be steered through waters this rough
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-06 18:35:56+00:00
> Even Arizona Iced Tea had to come off their $0.99 price tag.

Arizona Iced Tea price increases would be due to 50% aluminum tariffs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/business/arizon-iced-tea-... | https://archive.today/HOsps

> How much worse does it actually have to get to be official stagflation?

Steve Eisman: U.S. Consumers Are Collapsing: Cars, Credit, & the Chaos Ahead [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45492807 - October 2025

* 69% of the US population are living paycheck to paycheck

* 25% of American consumers are using BNPL (buy now pay later) to pay for groceries

What breaks the camel's back? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by cortesoft | 2025-10-06 18:36:03+00:00
They could also take your traditional search and chat history, feed it into an LLM, and ask it the same questions. Once you start doing that for one person... you could just feed everyone's chat and search history into an LLM, and ask it "who is the most dangerous" or whatever you want to ask.

Its just another version of the classic computing problem "computers might not make a new thing possible, but it makes it possible to do an old thing at a scale that fundamentally changes the way it works"

This is the same as universal surveillance... sure, anyone could have followed you in public and watched where you are going, but if you record everything, now you can do it for everyone at any time. That changes how it works.
by nomel | 2025-10-06 18:36:09+00:00
> but even the best render farms don't have enough computing power to support a straightforward implementation.

Back in 2014, Disneys Hyperion farm supported 10-20 software bounces! [1] Does this count, or does it still require "cheats"?

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2014-10-18-disney-big-hero-6.html
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-06 18:36:15+00:00
How nicely you ask. I arrived at them by division.

Since you ask so nicely, it gives me pleasure to provide further details:

- This link discusses the 2025 EU budget: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-annual-budget... there are two numbers. It is unclear if the budget is the sum, or if one number includes the other. But let's add them for an annual budget of approx 250bn EUR

- EU GDP is around 20tn EUR according to this Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union (the nominal number)

- using division I arrive at 1.25% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_(mathematics)

For the US:

- This webpage: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder... puts the federal spending at $6.66tn (hmm)

- Wikipedia again puts US GDP at around $30tn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States

- We arrive at federal budget spending of 22%

I'm not claiming these are the best or most up to date statistics, but this is a roughly 20x difference between US and Europe, and I understand the 2025 EU budget is particularly large.

The notion that EU bureaucracy is particularly expensive has no foundation in fact, AFAICT.
by xpe | 2025-10-06 18:36:28+00:00
To summarize some of the key differences [1]:

- Purpose/Scope: WireGuard creates persistent VPN tunnels for ongoing network connectivity. Magic Wormhole handles ephemeral file transfers.

- NAT Traversal: WireGuard typically requires at least one publicly-reachable endpoint. Magic Wormhole's relay server handles NAT traversal for initial rendezvous, then attempts direct connection.

- Configuration: WireGuard needs config files with public keys and endpoints. Magic Wormhole just needs a temporary code.

- Layer: WireGuard operates at network layer (creates virtual interface, routes IP traffic). Magic Wormhole is application-level.

[1] Based on a conversation with Claude 4.5, distilled and lightly edited. This information matches my experience with them.
by sailingparrot | 2025-10-06 18:36:28+00:00
> Odds are that shirt had already sailed around the world once or twice by the time you buy it,

That's like... 40 grams of CO2 for those 2 trips for a t-shirt. Aka, a 2 min uber ride.

Shipping containers are incredibly efficient.

Modern large container ships consume about 200-300 tonnes of fuel per day, and could carry 742 millions t-shirts [1]. It takes 16 days to do something like Shanghai - LA, so that ends up being like 20 grams per shirt per trip.

[1]: https://www.howandwhy.com/15-mins/huge-ship-shirts
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-06 18:36:43+00:00
There's supposed to be an open standard for Web Push notifications. ICEBlock would need to build out more tools for themselves, but the same user flow they have now should work with a PWA, using these open universal standards.

Alas, Apple's Web Push implementation has massive problems with it and there's no sign it'll improve. https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/web-push-ios-one-year/

Once again Apple mysteriously somehow making sure oh gee huh the web just can't compete with the native ecosystem they have total top down control over. This also means for instance also that the web can't compete for XMPP or messaging apps with native apps. Which came up in the call to run XMPP submission. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490439
by eambutu | 2025-10-06 18:36:43+00:00
No self-hosted version yet. You would need to trust us in the same way you trust your other SaaS apps that host company IP (e.g. Slack, Notion, Github, etc.)

I get that's a big ask from a startup. If it helps, we are a company that's been around for 4+ years and have built a work tool (https://gather.town) used for 100k+ people for their daily work, Sequoia-backed, are SOC II certified, and go way beyond that for the security considerations for this product.
by joshstrange | 2025-10-06 18:37:05+00:00
I do give credit to Steve Jobs. I was saying that what Jony has done on his own is less impressive IMHO.

If they manage to pull this off (OpenAI/io) then I will, begrudgingly, have to give credit to Altman, despite not being a huge fan of him (then again, Jobs wasn't a "good guy" in many aspect of his life either).

My point being, Jony needs an editor, when he was unchecked at Apple (or his own design company "Love From") I found that much of his output came across as an exercise in smelling one’s own farts.
by worik | 2025-10-06 18:38:06+00:00
That these consulting firms are still in business is a damning indictment of capitalism.

Back when I paid close attention to business news a week would not go by without a story about incompetence, laziness and or other malfeasance by them.

After Enron they reigned in (mostly) their blatant criminality but the same dirty dishonest people are still in charge
by famouswaffles | 2025-10-06 18:38:06+00:00
1. Scale and Automation matter always. It wouldn't be the first time, something that was previously already technically possible goes from rarely done to widespread problem.

2. The whole benefit about using LLMs, especially for search is the understanding of logic and intent behind your query, which means that when people use LLMs, they often aren't just sending the half-garbled messes they send in google search, they are sending in queries that make clear the intent behind the queries (so it can better answer it). This is not information you are guaranteed to obtain roving through browser history.

3. Today, and with ~ 5 billion users, Google search has 8.5 billion searches per day. Today, with some ~800M Weekly active users, ChatGPT has some 2.5 billion messages per day. Not only are people more revealing per query, they are clearly having a lot more of it per user.
by TheTaytay | 2025-10-06 18:38:44+00:00
OrbStack has created with what I consider to be a very clever shell that can "overlay" on top of any arbitrary running container, including remote docker hosts. It can be run even if the underlying container is so minimal that it doesn't have a shell installed.

I'm posting for two reasons. 1) I think this is clever. 2) I've been looking for a way to make a personalizable and portable shell/environment that is independent from the system that I'm logged into, and this is the closest I've ever seen anyone come to it. If anyone knows of similar approaches (for docker or ssh or remote administration), I'd love to hear about it.
by saurik | 2025-10-06 18:38:45+00:00
I read that sentence as saying that Siri is an example of something that ISN'T a "weird AI girlfriend": that what they want is Siri but better, as opposed to something that isn't even named in that sentence (but likely is trying to be a dig at Grok, but is failing to do so as, as you say, people consider ChatGPT's own products to have a bit of this issue).
by xp84 | 2025-10-06 18:38:48+00:00
I'm with you. It's really sad that this provides such a textbook case of why not to own your own infrastructure.

Practically speaking, I think a lot of what is offered by Microsoft, Google, and the other big companies that are selling into this space is vastly overpriced and way too full of lock-in, taking this stuff in-house without sufficient knowhow and maturity is even more foolish.

It's like not hiring professional truck drivers, but instead of at least people who can basically drive a truck, hiring someone who doesn't even know how to drive a car.
by zahlman | 2025-10-06 18:38:49+00:00
> But most Python project and programmers who are not making CLI tools or other startup-latency sensitive stuff may be better served by the old default import style.

That may well be the case, and Python's development processes would definitely tend to assume the same. That has a lot to do with why PEP 690 was rejected, and why this proposal is opt-in even though many people are concerned that a lot of projects will "opt in everywhere" and create a lot of noise.

Believe it or not, the process is actually very conservative. People complaining about the "churn" caused by deprecations and removals seem not to have any concept of how few suggestions actually get implemented, and how many are rejected (including ones that perennially occur to many new users). A browse through "ideas" forum where new pre-PEP ideas are commonly pitched (https://discuss.python.org/c/ideas/6) gives one the impression of a leisurely stroll through a graveyard.

And many people (including myself) can tell you that you'll often be put through a run-around: if your idea is good and can be implemented, then surely it falls on you to make and publicize (!) a third-party package, to prove the demand and the community support for your specific implementation; but if you somehow get there, now it's trivial for people to install support, so it doesn't need to be in the standard library (cf. Requests).
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-10-06 18:39:07+00:00
"perfectly" is doing some heavy lifting here.

Right now, I'm heavily into Cyberpunk 2077. I've got an RTX 5090, so I can turn all the details, including the ray tracing, to their maximum settings. It's absolutely gorgeous (Especially on my 4K HDR OLED monitor), but if you look really closely, you can still see the evidence of some shortcuts being taken.

Some reflections that are supposed to be a bit rough (like a thin puddle in the road) may appear a bit blurry as I'm walking, but will come into better focus when I stop. My guess is that as I'm moving, the angles of the rays being reflected change with every frame, making the data very noisy. Once I stop, they become consistent, so the reflection becomes clear.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-10-06 18:40:21+00:00
This article is so facile as to be meaningless. All it says is "making it easy to fire people is better for innovation," and then barely backs that up, as if it should be taken as writ that the author has found the one simple thing that Europe needs to fix. It talks about the "European model," but only really specifically mentions Germany (with a brief shout out to France in perhaps the only worthwhile section of the article, where it focuses on actual numbers) and doesn't really discuss anywhere else. It's certainly an opinion piece in that it showcases the author's opinion, but it doesn't do anything vis-a-vis persuasion.
by jstummbillig | 2025-10-06 18:40:24+00:00
Because labor protection costs money. If you get something from that, that's net boosting your economy, you have no problem. If not, you get social cohesion, at a price.

Somebody is paying that price. If it's companies they are disincentivized to employ people in your market. If companies go somewhere else to employ people, jobs disappear from your market. If the jobs disappear, so does the money.
by AfterHIA | 2025-10-06 18:40:30+00:00
https://nassimtaleb.org/2015/06/one-page-answer-to-pinkers-n...

It has gotten worse statistically. It's not just optics. This is critical as much of the western world is still living in the illusion that, "liberal democracy (the great civilizer) is that last form of government." Tell that to a Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Chinese, or Turkish person.
by casey2 | 2025-10-06 18:41:16+00:00
I remember hearing on a stream, and I find it to be true, that Rusts major innovation over Haskell, another boilerplate heavy language if your goal is systems programming, is that instead of "purity" which any sane programmer would just discard as useless right way they innovate "saftey" as a propaganda word, as a moral failing of the programmer for ignoring what is quite clearly useless.
by philodeon | 2025-10-06 18:41:40+00:00
You seem blind to the obvious corollary to that fact, which is if cryptosystems based on ring-LWE hardness have been worked on by giants for 30 years, then those same cryptosystems have been cryptanalyzed for 30 years, and a significant chunk of cryptanalytic research stays in NSA’s Classified Mathematics Library.

You’ve admitted you were “loudly wrong” when you announced Dual-EC couldn’t be an NSA cryptography backdoor. Snowden let us all know the NSA spends $250 million every year secretly convincing/bribing the private sector to use bad cryptography. Despite that history, you are still convinced there’s no way ML-KEM is an NSA cryptographic backdoor and that all the bizarre procedural errors in the PQ crypto contest are mere coincidences.

[checks my text messages] Lucy just texted me, Thomas. She’s outside waiting for you to kick her football.
by duxup | 2025-10-06 18:41:59+00:00
This article feels all over the map to me, is it about the educational system there / getting kids to go to class? Or is it about getting them to talk to each other?

All of these seem 100% within the professor's ability to enforce....

Or is it about talking about ideology?

>That means many students graduate without having benefited from talking very much with their teachers and peers, and they stay stuck in ideological bubbles, unwilling or unable to engage with challenging ideas.

As far as that goes I'd argue that's the same thing everywhere ... who WANTS to talk about anything like that?

On social media we live in a time of "I don't think this housing policy is effective." results in accusations of racism and assumptions that nobody can be talked down from ... so yeah who wants to do that?

Even decades ago I didn't want to talk about such things in college without really knowing who I was talking about ... that's not strange.
by analog31 | 2025-10-06 18:42:23+00:00
I think it depends on the industry. If it's printed circuit boards, then it's China. If it's software and financial services, then the US. If it's health and science research, then probably Europe.

In fact, where industries are built is even more granular: Shenzen and the Bay Area. Even within the US, big cities have tried building their own tech hubs, and failed. Economic policy may have played a minor role in building NYC or SFO.
by marssaxman | 2025-10-06 18:42:24+00:00
My experience sounds much the same, yes. I suppose your friend also touch-types? I find it very difficult to look at my fingers instead of the text while I'm trying to write - it's so distracting! - but of course that makes it tougher to hit the simulated keys I mean to press. I suspect that people who never learned to type properly might have an easier time of it.

This likely compounds: when some task will be an order of magnitude easier if I wait to do it on a computer, I'm unlikely to bother attempting it on a phone, so I likely never spend enough time trying to write on a phone to develop fluency with its interface.

I never use autocorrect or any sort of typing-assistance features, on the phone or anywhere else. All the flashing and zooming is unbearably distracting, and the machine guesses wrong often enough that it feels like more hindrance than help.

I have not yet spent enough time playing with AI tools to have developed much of an opinion about them, but I can easily imagine why your friend might feel that way - I, too, have very little patience for unruly tools! If I have to think about the tool, and manage it, and can't just wield it as an extension of my mind, it usually feels better to just do the work by hand, even if that would take longer.