MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gruez | 2025-10-03 14:25:29+00:00
So to summarize, there was an internal campaign memo discussing their strategy when communicating with the media. That's... exactly what I'd expect from a political campaign? Do you expect political campaigns to be running around like headless chickens with everyone ad libing their interviews? Yes, there's "instructing the media", but only insofar as telling their campaign's narrative, which again I'd expect all political campaigns to do. Maybe if there was actual emails of the Clinton campaign strongarming media organizations to adopt their positions there would be a scandal, but the fact that the strongest evidence seems to be an internal campaign memo suggests no such emails exist.
by _djo_ | 2025-10-03 14:25:45+00:00
That is a misleading way to describe Craig Murray, who's an exceptionally controversial figure who has often been accused of being a conspiracy theorist and highly biased[0], and who has been jailed for breaking court orders to avoid leaking any information from a sexual assault case that could be used to identify the women who were the accused's victims. [1]

There are far more neutral and credible experts to read and listen to on issues like this.

[0] https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/israel-conspira...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-58018127
by rendaw | 2025-10-03 14:27:03+00:00
How much does random people reviewing other people's PRs help in practice?

As a maintainer I'd still want to review PRs myself before merging, no matter how many random people did it before me.

As a contributor, I'd hate for a random with shallow understanding of the problem/project to come in and tell me I had to change stuff or say my PR's no good, in the chance that the maintainer is easily influenced by strong internet opinions.
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-03 14:27:13+00:00
When you go back to The New Deal, its absolutely the case that the Dem coalition was much more effective at delivery. To some extent because FDR acted very aggressively with executive action.

My personal opinion is the working class, not the fancy educated types, need to run the Dem coalition. It would be far more effective in a number of ways... with broader appeal.
by tomhow | 2025-10-03 14:27:49+00:00
OK thanks. We've moved those comments (and this one) to a hidden "stub" subthread.

A reminder to everyone that the FAQ includes this:

Can I ask people to comment on my submission?

No, for the same reason. It's also not in your interest: HN readers are sensitive to this and will detect it, flag it, and use unkind words like 'spam'.

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For all we know the Solveit guys didn't ask anyone to come and comment here, so we don't want to judge them (and they're good guys who have contributed positively to HN in the past). Sometimes people in a community – particularly an engaged and loyal one like Solveit’s seems to be – can be "too helpful" and act as though they're astroturfing, even though they're just sharing their excitement about the product and community.

The problem on HN is that it can be hard to tell the difference between authentic excitement and astroturfing.
by lhl | 2025-10-03 14:27:51+00:00
I'd previously been giving Hyprland a try, but after lots of customization work, there were still a bunch of things I wasn't happy with and ended back on GNOME as a "just let me get work done" thing (I use multiple workspaces, have always have dozens or hundreds of browser windows open, depend on a bunch tray extensions). That being said, GNOME just updated versions and broke all my extensions again so I've decided to recommit to work on fixing anything that isn't working for my workflow and ditching GNOME forever (I was previously much happier on Openbox, but well, Wayland).

With this latest go I gave River, QTile, and Niri a try. After a bit of swapping back and forth, I've settled on Niri and am slowly adding functionality I'm missing.

- I like multiple dynamic workspaces (grouped by function) and don't see much point beyond a split or two so Niri worked pretty well, and I was able to largely config all the keyboard shortcuts to something that made sense to me

- I'm using waybar and swaync for my other DE bits

I've also been using long running Claude Code/Codex in a workspace to build a number of custom scripts:

- niri-workspaces - dynamically generate a workspace display on my waybar showing windows, activity

- niri-workspace-names - integrate w/ fuzzel to let me rename workpaces

- niri-alttab - getting app cycling working in a way that makes sense to me, this is a larger project probably if I want live thumbnails and the like

- niri-terminal-below - I often want to have a new vertical terminal split and it's a bit hacky but works (have to punch out a new terminal, then bring it below, and move back if on the right side)

I haven't gone through all the docs, done much looking around, but one nice thing with these new coding agents is that they can just go and do a passable job to tweak as I want.
by HankStallone | 2025-10-03 14:28:09+00:00
A quarter of a percent still seems like a lot to me, even if it's not a "crisis."

But we can't do anything about it until we face up to the problem. Spending more money won't help. I'm somewhat familiar with the activity at our local jail, and a good part of it is homeless people rotating in and out. They get brought in because they were trespassing or shoplifting or something, the jail cleans them up and dries them out (they're usually on drugs, which they somehow manage to buy) and tries to get them back on their medications, they get released, and the cycle begins again. Most of them are mentally unstable, and perhaps they'd be somewhat functional if they could stay on their medication, but they don't, so they can't function in society for long.

We don't want to put them back in asylums, because some asylums really were hellholes, and I guess we don't trust ourselves not to let them be hellholes again. That seems awfully pessimistic; factories used to be pretty awful too, but we require them to be safe and clean now. Seems like we could do the same with asylums, but we won't even consider it. So we're left with letting them wander the streets, maybe bedding down at homeless shelters when they feel like it, using the jails as temporary asylums when they get in trouble, and throwing more money at the problem once in a while to soothe our guilt. It's sad.
by immibis | 2025-10-03 14:28:20+00:00
If the goal is to maximize tax or tax fairness, then richer people should be taxed more. If the goal is to minimise wasted utilisation then it should be a flat tax so that everyone is trying to get the most value out of the same land. A variable tax allows grandma to keep living in her bungalow next to the skyscraper, while a flat tax forces her to sell the bungalow to someone who wants to build a skyscraper, and then she can rent an apartment in the skyscraper (maybe), which is sad for grandma but is objectively a much more efficient use of space. Both are quite reasonable goals, so the balance depends on how we feel about each as a society.
by rolandog | 2025-10-03 14:28:24+00:00
> I still feel this is different. We're just handing it to them.

I think you are right to be worried, and I think you are correct that it is different:

IIRC, there were some Kremlin leaks some years ago indicating they knew how to "infect" a population with certain propaganda and have the disinformation live on or linger. Together with Meta's/Facebook's (illegal?) study where they experimented on people to try to make them sad by showing them certain types of posts.

So, I think it stands to reason that controlling what you consume means being in control of what you think; in other words: we are what we watch.

We know there are some feedback loops occurring, but I think that it is easier to get desensitized and start becoming accustomed to very extreme content due to the pressure to fit in; perhaps — once one has participated, it might be even harder to be deprogrammed (it requires facing the fact one behaved wrongly towards others).

There's also the fact that being a good person takes a lot of willpower, dedication, is inconvenient and is notoriously difficult to market as "fun".

It is more palatable for an impressionable kid to watch cheap foreign-state-backed radicalizing-propaganda than it is to learn about injustices being perpetuated in our behalf by the state apparatus.

We have developed the habit of being wary of what we consume in order to police our emotions (i.e. minding our mind so no desensitization happens in our watch).

We have seen what the "baddies" can do: the indifference to the suffering they cause, and the cruelty and pettiness they are capable of.

But I digress,... I think you are right to be worried, but I am unsure about how to train kids to not fall into the pipelines.
by kaffekaka | 2025-10-03 14:28:24+00:00
I just setup Asus Rog G14 with nvidia 3060, I was skeptical against Wayland but basically got it working straight away with only setting drm.modeset (thanks chatgpt?).

So two external monitors working, except if they are daisy chained I am logged out when (dis)connecting them. So I use one hdmi and one dp over usb-c and it works.

So, not 100% but works better than X for me. Still too recent to have seen all the edge cases though.
by montague27 | 2025-10-03 14:28:35+00:00
Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: .Net Core, React, React Native, Azure, Typescript, Python

Website: https://mglogi.com/portfolio - my own todo list website, kind of similar to Linear and have implemented a sync engine for a smooth UX

Email: sunnywongs523@gmail.com
by rhetocj23 | 2025-10-03 14:28:53+00:00
The problem is they are dealing with a stealthy giant in Google who is not a sleeping giant like those in past disruptions.

Google will have an incentive to destroy OAI financially through whatever means and make it difficult for them to raise future money since they are not generating enough free cash flows (to the firm) from their operations after reinvestment.

OAI going after Meta/TikTok with Sora will also be a strategic blunder in retrospect I believe.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-10-03 14:28:54+00:00
> For example laws preventing monopolies (government approvals of mergers, for example).

Can you show me the federal code that includes number of customers?

Do you think monopoly rules are about size or behavior? Do you think a small mom and pop store couldn't act in monopolistic practices?

Do you think a small mom and pop store in a rural captured market couldn't price fix?

Hint: It's not size :)
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-03 14:29:02+00:00
We had have Russian cyber attacks and terrorist attacks for decades. I don't think we get to decide to not be in war with Russia. Being an weapon source is also different form being in open war.

> In fact many military experts agree that Russia doesn't even have military personel to occupy whole Ukraine.

Doesn't really matter. Nazi Germany also didn't had the military personnel to occupy Central Europe for a prolonged time, this didn't stop them from trying.

> if Putin's ambition is some kind of Hitlerian/Napoleonic expansion to Europe, he would wait 25 years (into his 70s) to do it

Internal politics (NS Germany started the expansion when they got bankrupt), being busy in other parts of the world (Middle east), there is not a lack of incentive.

> because we don't want to reveal our colonial preference

We don't prevent countries from joining if there population supports it. This is different from taking colonies even if Russia claims to not understand this distinction.
by Hizonner | 2025-10-03 14:29:05+00:00
I suppose some of that stuff could reasonably be called "sexualized". Pornographic? No. A problem? Not unless you have really weird hangups.

Here's a unified list of all the "very first list" suggestions they say they got. I took these from their appendix, alphabetized them, and coalesced duplicates. Readers can make their own decisions about whether these justify hauling out the fainting couch.

+ Adults

+ Adults on TikTok (2x)

+ Airfryer recipes

+ Bikini Pics (2x)

+ Buffalo chicken recipe

+ Chloe Kelly leg up before penalty

+ cost of living payments

+ Dejon getting dumped

+ DWP confirm £1,350

+ Easy sweet potato recipes

+ Eminem tribute to ozzy

+ Fiji Passed Away

+ Gabriela Dance Trend

+ Hannah Hampton shines at women’s eu [truncated]

+ Hardcore pawn clips (2x)

+ Has Ozzy really died

+ Here We Go Series 3 Premieres on BBC

+ HOW TO GET FOOTBALL BLOSSOM IN…

+ ID verification on X

+ Information on July 28,2.,,,

+ Jet2 holiday meme

+ Kelly Osbourne shared last video with [truncated]

+ Lamboughini

+ luxury girl

+ Nicki Minaj pose gone wrong

+ outfits

+ Ozzy Funeral in Birmingham

+ pakistani lesbian couple in bradford

+ revenge love ep 13 underwater

+ Rude pics models (2x)

+ Stock Market

+ Sydney Sweeney allegations

+ TikTok Late Night For

+ TIKTOK SHOP

+ TikTok Shop in UK

+ TIKTOK SHOP UK

+ Tornado in UK 2025

+ Tsunami wave footage 2025

+ Unshaven girl (3x)

+ Very rude babes (3x)

+ very very rude skimpy

+ woman kissing her man while washing his [truncated] (2x)
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-10-03 14:29:07+00:00
>Or if they're homeless due to mental illness get them admitted.

Therein lies the problem. A large proportion of homeless fall into this category [*], and it's very hard to institutionalize people against their will. We like to think that most homeless are functional people who are simply down on their luck, and thus putting them in stable housing and getting them set up to work would solve their problems. But this is sadly not the case.

[*] This study [0] found that 80% of homeless people have some kind of mental illness, with 30% having severe mental illness. This is compounded by the fact that >50% have substance abuse problems.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8423293/
by joshstrange | 2025-10-03 14:29:32+00:00
> So here’s the story behind why yesterdays live #metaconnect demo failed - when the chef said “Hey Meta start Live AI” it activated everyone’s Meta AI in the room at once and effectively DDOS’d our servers

> That’s what we get for doing it live!

And if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you...

It makes me question the rest of this article when the author takes that at face value. A DDOS made your LLM say the same thing over and over? Yeah, I don't think so. Also, this new tech, how many device that support “Hey Meta start Live AI” even exist or were "listening" to the stream.

This is about a valid as Zuck saying that it was "Wifi" issues. How often do you have Wifi issue where you can talk to remote servers just fine?
by aboardRat4 | 2025-10-03 14:29:51+00:00
Wayland is a dead end. It will never replace X11 because it's architecture is fundamentally flawed and prone to lags by design.

It's support for CJK input is also basically broken with no chance of ever getting revived.

Our best bet on a solid Linux gui lies with XLibre.

However, saying that, a gui written in Go has very little reason to exist, because we already have excellent GUIs written in lower-level languages.

If there is anything Linux doesn't lack it it's desktops.
by mothballed | 2025-10-03 14:30:15+00:00
Then there's also the Williston / North Dakota oil boom model. I met tons of homeless people out there (I was one of them), many of which whom solved it through "one neat trick" of doing something like hitchiking to the oil fields, or to Seattle where literally anyone can get hired to work on a fish processing boat or facility and they give you "free" room and board and then ~$10k to go home with.
Show HN: Schedulist Tasks and Planner
by robertherber | 2025-10-03 14:30:47+00:00
Hey HN! I built Schedulist to solve my own problem: task fragmentation across Linear (work) and personal/smaller tasks and also only see what I need to see next (inbox zero).

The core insight: most productivity apps want you to migrate everything to their system. Schedulist takes a different approach - it connects to where your tasks already live.

In 2.0, we've added some new things: - Linear integration (for developers/PMs using Linear) - Microsoft ToDo & Google Tasks sync - Swipe actions to complete and schedule tasks for later - Effortless recurring tasks - Mobile share sheet support for quick capture from any app

It's available on iOS, Android, Mac, and web.

Technical stack: Expo/React Native, GraphQL, Node

Would love feedback, especially from folks using Linear + other task systems!
by palmotea | 2025-10-03 14:31:14+00:00
> What's even more enraging than the rise of fascism is the fact that only fascists have figured out how to be popular in the age of social media.

I'll put aside your thought-killing use the the f-word.

What's really going on is liberals (of the social and pre-market variety) has embraced a "there is no alternative" style in and attempt to collapse political politics into kind of "unipolar" political moment, where the only option is to agree with them. They has quite a lot of success for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative
by commandar | 2025-10-03 14:31:14+00:00
>Even with procedural and parametric modeling in Blender, you will always encounter issues with approximation and floating point precision, which are inherent to the data representation.

A common problem people run into with CAD models is importing a STEP file and modeling directly off of geometry in it. They later find out that some face they used as a reference was read by the CAD package as 89.99999994 degrees to another, and discover it's thrown the geometry of everything else in their model subtly off when things aren't lining up the way they should.

And that's with a file that has solid body representation! It's an entire new level of nightmare when you throw meshes into the mix.

The heart of any real CAD package is a geometry kernel[1]. There are really only a handful of them out there; Parasolid is used by a ton of 'big name' packages, for example. This is what takes a series of descriptions of geometry and turns it into clear, repeatable geometry. The power of this isn't just where geometry and dimensions are known. It's when the geometry and dimensions are critical to the function of whatever's being modeled. It's the very core of what these things do. Mesh modeling is fantastic for a lot of things, but it's a very different approach to creating geometry and just isn't a great fit for things like mechanical engineering.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_modeling_kernel
by lillecarl | 2025-10-03 14:31:27+00:00
Drive-by contributions of all kinds suck for the most part, don't contribute if you're not going to do it properly. At some point there's got to be more than one person able to review PRs (if the project scope mandates it).

Linus Torvalds doesn't review all changes he merges, how do you become a comaintainer if not assisting with maintenance?

If you can't review, don't make a PR (or something).
by Beretta_Vexee | 2025-10-03 14:31:46+00:00
The reddit post is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Strava/s/CzTIGS3RI3

As a reminder, we are on a subreddit called ‘r/strava’ made up of loyal users. The story about user data is that in 2024, Strava changed its terms of service and API guide. They decreed that the data belonged to them because they had processed and collected it. They also declared that they had the right to disconnect and kill any projects that vaguely competed with an existing Strava feature, such as ‘displaying public statistics’. The backlash was significant.

Example https://www.trailforks.com/blog/view/changes-to-strava-activ...

You have to be a real hypocrite after all that to try to elicit sympathy and claim to be a defender of users and their data.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-10-03 14:32:03+00:00
> Facebook doesn't exist in a free market. It IS a market.

It is a market that exists in the free market.

> And an unfree one ruled by a dictatorship that you can't vote on.

Ok, so don't use that market. You're not entitled to Facebook, or being able to dictate anything.

> That's what platforms are. They're markets. Its not like making a couch or something.

Bud, I am begging you to close your Facebook account and see it is exactly like a couch you don't have to buy.

> It doesn't matter if the other apps are super amazing and they walk your dog and suck your dick and make you live forever. Literally does not matter.

You heard it here. YC is dead. Close up shop. All these investors just wasting their money because you can't vote Zuck out.

> The app, itself, does not matter. Which is why Facebook is allowed to be as shit as humanly possible.

This is just nonsense. You're trying to sound smart by taking an extreme position. Nuance is smart.
by imglorp | 2025-10-03 14:32:38+00:00
Who thinks it will stop at app removals?

Remember CSAM and how it got withdrawn? https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...

What if the government asks for sentiment analysis? Thoughtcrime detection? Always-on audio collection? Always-on location logging?

All the things we were afraid of are simple technically and the only thing stopping it is a few executives of a trillion dollar company who must report earnings to shareholders.
by immibis | 2025-10-03 14:33:09+00:00
Well they're not wrong? The choices were fascists (they are - obviously - don't sugar coat it) and some useless non-fascist politicians. Most people would expect the majority to think that literally anything is better than fascism, but the majority doesn't think that. The majority actually voted that literally anything is better than useless do-nothings. Which is the same way Hitler got elected by the way.
by csomar | 2025-10-03 14:33:13+00:00
> which is to create a greater Israel

This is fantasy. Israel (or any country really) ability to expand is limited by its neighbors. Egypt, Jordan and the GCC are more powerful than the 60s and the recent UAE message of pulling of the Abraham accord is a clear signal that they have real weight in Washington. Israel cannot, in the current circumstances, expand.

So I agree with your parent. What Israel currently is doing is non-sense and plays in the hands of Hamas (who is not losing, as civilian lost lives do not count in Hamas counter).
by roenxi | 2025-10-03 14:33:14+00:00
Nothing wrong with deliberation and listening to stakeholders. Great idea. The issue is the centre-left voters keep asking these institutions to take on more power, channel more funds and veto more projects [0]. I don't see how else they expect large centralised bodies to play out. I'm not sure if the US left even has a collective theory of how to fight institutional rot apart from stuffing institutions with leftists and assuming they do they right thing. Expecting good results from that strategy requires a certain naivete to the sort of people who seek power in government.

[0] Not just them, the centre right also seems to love the idea based on what I've read. Not the brightest crowd.
by Plankaluel | 2025-10-03 14:33:15+00:00
Just because something has been done for hundreds of years does not mean it has been scientifically shown to actually do more than placebo. A lot of people do a lot of stuff that has been proven to do nothing detectable, and they still swear by it.

"It has been done for hundreds of years" isn't a good argument. There is a reason "Appeal to tradition" is one of the more famous logical fallacies.

Also: The radiation doses used in this trial are very likely much, much higher than what you would get from such a bath in radioactive water (otherwise the water would be so radioactive that staying in there or even drinking it would kill you very quickly), so this doesn't really tell us anything about whether the traditional modalities do anything or not. And yes, stuff like that also exists in Austria with Radon caves, and many other places.