MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jwpapi | 2025-10-29 04:06:06+00:00
I normally dont waste a lot of energy on politics.

But this feels truly dystopian. We here on HN are all in our bubble, we know that AI responses are very prone to error and just great in mimicking. We can differentiate when to use and when not (more or less), but when I talk to non-tech people in a normal city not close to a tech hub, most of them treat ChatGPT as the all-knowing factual instance.

They have no idea of the concious and unconcious bias on the responses, based on how we ask the questions.

Unfortunately I think these are the majority of the people.

If you combine all that with a shady Silicon Valley CEO under historical pressure to make OpenAI profitable after 64 billion in funding, regularly flirting with the US president, it seems always consequential to me that exactly what the author described is the goal. No matter the cost.

As we all feel like AI progress is stagnating and mainly the production cost to get AI responses is going down, this almost seems like the only out for OpenAI to win.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-10-29 04:06:31+00:00
I'm glad you were able to use these tools to help your family though such tough times!

> The hopeful part of me is that many others can use similar techniques to win.

And the realistic part in me says that these tools will be used to deny appeals without a human ever looking into them and making sure you will never get to talk to a human or get approval for anything ever again.
by mkozlows | 2025-10-29 04:06:42+00:00
There are apparently are some semi-experimental FFB drivers out there for a few wheels... but yeah, most hardware has a zero percent chance of working, because it's a niche of a niche. And then if you're doing online racing, they all(?) have anti-cheat stuff that won't work for you anyway.

If games transition to SteamOS/Linux in general, I think this niche is going to be one of the slower ones to move, but never say never.
by protocolture | 2025-10-29 04:06:46+00:00
My biggest issue is threat surface. You can design around it, but Mikrotik WAP's do everything a Mikrotik router can do. If they get compromised they can run scripts, create blind proxies etc, and mikrotik has a habit of resurfacing CVEs from memory.

My experience is very binary. I had some Mikrotik RF installs that Just Worked, and never needed attention. And some that were just problem children constantly demanding reboots.

Mikrotik code isnt the most stable beast in the world, but if you keep it at a certain point in time you are usually safe. But then that brings you back around to the security issues again.
by hopelite | 2025-10-29 04:06:52+00:00
It’s about control. It is a fundamental difference in perspective and mentality regarding control. America is or at least was largely oriented around indirect control or outcome oriented objectives, where Europe is largely oriented around direct control or prescribed objectives.

It’s also enshrined in our respective governments and the foundational philosophies that underpin them. The US Declaration of Independence sets out to describe that the natural rights of the men who created the USA are preeminent and the Constitution lists how those rights may not be infringed upon, i.e. It creates laws that binds and limits the actions of government, something that was and has never been emulated since. Where across Europe, you simply do not have anything even remotely similar and the law inversely describes what you are permitted by government to do instead.

It is effectively descriptive vs prescriptive law and underlying philosophies. It is something I have had the hardest time on occasion getting my European friends to really internalize, seemingly because it’s so contrary to what their conditioned with all their life, i.e., the government is essentially the matter that grants you what it grants you, not that you have rights that the government may not infringe upon.

But to be fair, this possibly European tendency to dominate and control what you may and may not do and when and how, is and long has been creeping into the USA too, arguably since even the 12th amendment to the Constitution and getting worse with every amendment since, layers upon layers of contradicting and conflicting flaws and bugs that will be reading their ugly heed here in about two years, when Trump may run for President again. And if you don’t think he can, you simply don’t understand what a spaghetti code the Constitution is after the 11th amendment, hack after hack building up mountains of debt that is going to come due in our lives.
by chrismorgan | 2025-10-29 04:07:58+00:00
If you want to divide English into only two categories, I reckon US English (color, analyze, center) and International English (colour, analyse, centre) is the best divide. It’s imperfect—Canadians are mostly International but want analyze, and there are other controversial words like program/programme (US, CA and AU prefer program; GB and IN prefer programme)—but I think it’s the best divide if you want only two.

Windows distributes ISOs labelled English (en-US) and English International (en-GB) along this divide.

It’s also a valuable divide for reasons beyond language, because the USA really does have a habit of doing its own thing, even when pretty much the rest of the world has agreed on something different. Your US English locale can default to Fahrenheit, miles, pounds, Letter, and their bizarre middle-endian date format, while International English can default to Celsius, kilometres, kilograms, A4, and DD/MM/YYYY. It doesn’t sort out everything, but it gives a much better starting point. Not every non-American prefers DD/MM/YYYY, but even if they’d prefer something like DD.MM.YY or YYYY-MM-DD, DD/MM/YYYY is a whole lot better than MM/DD/YYYY.
by danpalmer | 2025-10-29 04:08:05+00:00
HTTPS doesn't have mandatory key rotation every 90 days. LetsEncrypt does for reasons that they document, but you can go elsewhere if you'd prefer.

> I as a user should be allowed to decide my threat model

Asking you if you want to proceed is allowing you to decide your threat model.

> We have so much compliance theater around email, and we still have exactly the same threats and issues as existed twenty years ago.

...and yet we have largely eliminated entire classes of issue on the web with the shift to HTTPS, to the point where asking users to opt-in to HTTP traffic is actually a practical option, raising the default security posture with minimal downside.
by Hansenq | 2025-10-29 04:09:15+00:00
Everyone here seems to hate on the idea of seeing ads on an appliance you purchased. I hate ads too!

But, let's consider the counterfactual. What if Samsung offered you a new fridge for free, as long as you were ok with passive ads?

I hate ads, but I'm not sure I would pass up a free fridge...those things are expensive!

(this is not even that unrealistic. Let's say you have a household of 3 and a fridge lasts 10 years. Meta makes about $200 per year per user solely from showing ads; that's $6000 over 10 years. If Samsung got as good as Meta is (which they likely won't), 6k is more than enough to cover the cost of giving a fridge away for free)
by grishka | 2025-10-29 04:10:14+00:00
> I don't think software is ever finished.

Back when it came on physical media, it was very much finished. Needing an update to fix a critical bug or a UX issue was a very costly problem to have, both in money and in reputation. Users had to be convinced to buy and install major updates, instead of being strong-armed into it. Staying on an older version was easier, and in case of operating systems, much more widely accepted.

Many video games fall into that category even today. Sure, the "we can always release an update" mentality did infest game developers as well, but, unlike apps and OSes, most games do have a finite scope and stop being developed once that scope has been realized.
by CableNinja | 2025-10-29 04:10:51+00:00
You only need about 40hz to make it seem on all the time, TVs (before 2020, maybe earlier) only did 25hz-ish. You can actually play pretty ridiculous tricks on the brain if you know this. For example, in VR, in a large enough room, you can slightly alter the angle the player sees inbetween frames. This alteration makes the brain think youre slightly offset from where it thinks you should actually be. This allows you to cause a person to walk in a circle irl, while they think they are walking in a straight line. Unfortunately only works up to a threshold of change, before the brain starts getting confused and causss the user motion sickness.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-29 04:11:20+00:00
AI, while undeniably powerful and transformative, is in the midst of the biggest, most insane tech bubble we have ever seen. And nearly all of that money is ending up, directly or indirectly, in GPU data centers. And NVIDIA is the largest cost (profit maker) there.

When that investment firehouse gets turned off, the AI providers will stop building new data centers. Likely for some years. That revenue stream for NVIDIA will go to zero so fast…

The unknown, as with any bubble, is timing.
by solotronics | 2025-10-29 04:11:48+00:00
This problem statement was actually where the idea for Proof of Work (aka mining) in bitcoin came from. It evolved out of the idea of requiring a computational proof of work for sending an email via cypherpunk remailers as a way of fighting spam. The idea being only a legitimate or determined sender would put in the "proof of work" to use the remailer.

I wonder how it would look if open source projects required $5 to submit a PR or ticket and then paid out a bounty to the successful or at least reasonable PRs. Essentially a "paid proof of legitimacy".
by throwawayffffas | 2025-10-29 04:12:03+00:00
Yep the whole tpm thing and the device constrained nature they have envisioned is the major drawback.

But no they have to live in their secured enclave or on a dongle so that you can't copy them between devices because nothing ever happened to a device.

As if the rest of the users system is compromised the user can't be tricked into providing access to their account.

And no one ever "recovered" someone else's account.

The main benefit of passkeys is that they are keys you don't have to send them over the wire. The main risk of having them on disk encrypted purely in software is that a compromised system can lead to the keys getting stolen.

Their trusted platform bulshit doesn't really escape that threat though, instead of stealing your keys the attacking malware can just get access to your service and maybe even enroll their own key.

If you tried to login to a website and you got two requests to allow the use of your key one after the other would you really have the wherewithal to say no wait a second I just gave permission for that key to be used, the second request is obviously from malware on this computer that's trying to gain access to my account.

That's ignoring that the malware can just read everything you are reading.

The whole tpm obsession is security theater on top of a power play
by EGreg | 2025-10-29 04:13:11+00:00
What are you talking about? You can easily build the captive portals by setting up a custom DNS server, and HTTPS has nothing to do with it! In fact, local networks have been doing this very thing for years now. Apple even supports Detecting this interception so the operating system can show a captive portal to the user. The OS maker gives network admins an official a way to enforce captive portals, and it’s not going away with https.
Ask HN: Why do flight apps show different prices for the same route?
by Revalis | 2025-10-29 04:13:14+00:00
I ran a small test on two routes for the travel date 18 November 2025: New York to London and London to Berlin. Five apps: Skyscanner, Kayak, Google Flights, Expedia, and Wego. Parameters: One adult, economy, USD. Incognito on desktop. I ran all searches within about an hour. I recorded the lowest fare shown on the results page and did not go to checkout. The goal was to see whether prices matched across apps for the same route and date.

Findings, JFK to LHR All showed the same Icelandair flight. Prices: Kayak USD 164. Wego 165. Google Flights 165. Skyscanner 167. Expedia 185. Result counts: Kayak about 973. Wego 610. Skyscanner 270. Expedia 80. Google Flights does not provide an easy way to see a total count, and I didn’t feel like counting manually.

Findings, LHR to BER All showed the same SAS flight. Prices: Wego USD 116. Kayak 117. Skyscanner 118. Google Flights 119. Expedia 128. Result counts: Wego 486. Kayak 408. Skyscanner 156. Expedia 93. Again, for Google Flights, I didn’t feel like counting manually.

Price gaps were small, mostly under 10 percent, but a pattern was consistent. Wego and Kayak were typically the lowest. Expedia was higher for the same flights. Result counts varied widely across apps, which may reflect partner coverage.

If you work on metasearch or airline pricing, what factors most often create these gaps? Partner coverage, fare families, currency handling, cache timing, or OTA markups?

Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
by sharts | 2025-10-29 04:14:20+00:00
I feel like the minority. The few times I’ve tried games on linux with decent hardware (eg radeon vii, rx580, rtx3060?) it was just trash. like straight up stuttering and nonsense.

Maybe the only games I ever tried were in that 10% that aren’t supported or will never be supported (hitman, deus ex, etc).

this led me down the rabbit hole for a while of gpu passthrough w/ vfio / sriov and virtual machines. those worked really well but also had their own problems.

in the end i just bought a damned ps5 pro that rarely gets used. but at least it “just works” when I want it to. which is more than i can say for anything remotely related to using linux for games or even as a decent desktop.

and yes, i tried your distro. the only one perhaps that wasn’t a headache was void.
by Ostrogoth | 2025-10-29 04:14:36+00:00
I’ve experiencing this same issue on every flight now using APP3, and considering returning. Tried multiple different ear tip sizes. Reset and re-paired. It’s not just pressure changes, as it occurs at steady altitude in addition to ascending and descending. I’m very surprised Apple didn’t catch this issue by testing the ANC on aircraft more extensively during product testing, since that is an extremely common use case for ANC headphones. They also generate weird popping/thumping noises while running, or tinny echoes sometimes while scratching my head. Hopefully there is a software fix. AP1 ANC worked just fine (until case failed to charge left earbud).
by culebron21 | 2025-10-29 04:15:20+00:00
Agree. Also, it looks a lot like the USSR system, where general healthcare was underfinanced and had poor education quality (although, mostly worked against infectious diseases), hence some ministries and even enterprises (were part of ministries) had their own clinics and so-called sanatoriums (recreation and healthcare facilities for vacations). ...and also built their own residential apartment buildings (they'd order the construction enterprises, but had the housing themselves). So it mattered a lot where you worked and where you retired from.
by gmuslera | 2025-10-29 04:15:56+00:00
One thing that worked for me was, with a particular big database, to use borg instead of restic. Most of the database was historical data that usually don't change, the mysqldump file is almost identical with the exception of the new and old modified data. And there is where borg deduplication and compression works, the new dump will have most blocks identical to the old one so with it I could have several days of backups taking little extra space in the borg repository. And I was able to rclone that borg repository to S3 intelligent tier so I could keep long time backups that way that for most of the space it would end in glacier storage transparently.

Of course, it is not a general solution, but knowing what the data is and how it changes may let you take more efficient approaches than what is usually recommended.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-29 04:16:25+00:00
This is going to be such a ridiculous farce. It seemed so so likely this was going to be part Wikipedia rip off part LLM slop, and lo, sure looks so: absolutely zero actual real effort, zero hard work. All bias machine slop. Thanks Tim for digging in.

Next up, replacing all recommendations & ranking with more Elonbot/Grok slop AI! https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-swi...

Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans was such a beautiful conclusion to the ~2018-ish saga of articles, 'the world is now George Orwell future', 'the world is now Aldous Huxleys future'. It's captured so so well what the internet window shopped realities was leading too. And now they're giving LLM hallucinogens to these goddamned self-maniacing maniacs. They're building better and better faker and fake humans with less and less coupling to reality, more and more demented bias, more and more alien freakishness with not a shred of reality, spur ed further into their rabbit holes of insanity by absurd tortured LLMs. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/henry-farrell-philip-k...
by kragen | 2025-10-29 04:16:37+00:00
Why would your credit card need to act against your interests? The only thing it should be doing is signing transactions to signal that you approve. The credit card company has their own computers that can be consulted to ask them if they approve a transaction. They don't need one in your pocket. They can rent a rack in a data center. It's not that expensive.

Similarly, the banking app on your phone should be representing your interests, 100%. It may need to keep secrets, such as a private transaction signing key, from your bank or from your boyfriend, but not from you. And it definitely should not be collecting information on your phone against your will or without your knowledge. But that is currently common practice.
by Mobius01 | 2025-10-29 04:17:02+00:00
I was seriously irritated with Windows 11 for the past few months. If my PC went to sleep, it would wake up and freeze at the logon screen. The constant updates that would reset some preferences - and worse, reinstall CoPilot and OneDrive - pushed me over. I went and installed Bazzite on the PC I built early this year with a Nvidia RTX 5080, somewhat skeptical that it would work well despite my extremely positive experience with the Steam Deck. The result is outstanding.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-10-29 04:18:06+00:00
It's not really Netflix. Its Microsoft, Apple and Google.

So say goodbye to using teams on Linux. Using Microsoft365 on any hardware that is not Microsoft approved.

Or logging in to your bank without an iPhone or an android. We will surely complain but the bank will say that we only support secure devices and that means iPhones and Android, and how come you are making a big deal about it just buy one of these two everyone else has one.
by Cloudef | 2025-10-29 04:19:41+00:00
Yeah, I was thinking nix will be probably one of the first things that can easily adapt Fil-C as it already packages in a way that allows different packages to be completely independent of each other, thus Fil-C's ABI compatibility does not matter. I assume other targets will be mostly enterprise distros where the perf hit and source compatibility issues are less of a concern, and memory safety is absolutely critical.

Fil-C compiled flatpaks might be a interesting target as well for normal desktop users. (e.g. running a browser)

I wonder if GPU graphics are possible in Fil-C land? Perhaps only if whole mesa stack is compiled using Fil-C as well, limiting GPU use to open drivers?
by lynx97 | 2025-10-29 04:20:11+00:00
That is probably a US specific phenomenon, as we in Europe don't have so much dislike towards communism as you guys over there seem to have. However, I could draw the same conclusion as you did regarding left leaning people. People with progressive "values" rarely object to far left values, although they are incapable of having a useful conversation with center people. So.
by acomjean | 2025-10-29 04:20:37+00:00
One of the interesting history of the PC was when Microsoft started selling their OS to clone makers. To hear Balmer tell it, it was frighting as IBM was making their PS2 machines more proprietary. They won and IBM os2 lost. I figured android was Google’s MSDos for mobile, but it seems the temptation of ad revenue is too strong (even showing up on windows..)

Linux is the answer though on mobile it’s just starting to be a little competitive.

“Steve Ballmer: We said ooh, IBM's probably not going to like this. This is going to threaten OS 2. Now we told them about it, right away we told them about it, but we still did it. They didn't like it, we told em about it, we told em about it, we offered to licence it to em.

Bill Gates: We always thought the best thing to do is to try and combine IBM promoting the software with us doing the engineering. And so it was only when they broke off communication and decided to go their own way that we thought, okay, we're on our own, and that was definitely very, very scary.”

https://www.pbs.org/nerds/part2.html
by kragen | 2025-10-29 04:20:38+00:00
Yes, Google has much greater competency. But when their interests run counter to their users' interests, as in the particular case we're talking about where they are nuking F-Droid from orbit, thus depriving users of access to NewPipe and other apps that don't try to rip users off, that higher competency is a disadvantage, not an advantage.

Neither incentive alignment nor competency is sufficient without the other.
by znort_ | 2025-10-29 04:21:30+00:00
it is, but i'm willing to compromise. grapheneos can be an option for a while, ultimately a linux phone. worst case i can settle with 2 phones for a while, one cheap/old stock android exclusively for the bank and such, another one for everything else.

it's also a long run, the way things are shaping up i don't expect alternatives to become mainstream but nevertheless getting improved support over time.

if we indeed end up in a situation where there is no viable alternative then screw that, i might as well go completely off grid.
by fragmede | 2025-10-29 04:23:05+00:00
What are you talking about? There's Do I have enough RAM to run Slack, all my Chrome tabs, and a terminal program; there's what terminal program shall I run today: Ghost edition; there's Can I get Colima to run, now with docker DLC. There's Kubernetes on Mac: Kind edition; there's Let's with Tart!; Nix is for Ops: New and more obtuse config edition. With so many fun games to play, who's got time for anything else?
by pfisherman | 2025-10-29 04:23:12+00:00
My main point of skepticism about repurposing is whether this is giving any of new and actionable information. It seems to be reliant on pre existing target annotations, and qualified targets already have molecules designed for them. Is the off-target effect strong enough to give you a superior molecule? Why not just start by picking a qualified target and committing to designing a better molecule without doing all the off target assay stuff first?
by throwawayffffas | 2025-10-29 04:23:20+00:00
Not really dude, if I can't export in plaintext I can't pick the encryption I have to use whatever keepassxc will do. I can't pipe it to gpg and encrypt it with my key.

And on the other hand I can only load them to another keepass instance I can't switch credential managers.

If you are worried your system is running malware that will steal your plaintext keys, well bad news they can steal the encrypted keys and keylog your password.