MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by infecto | 2025-10-06 12:35:29+00:00
I have very mixed feelings about this tech. On one hand there does feel like a deteriorating society, more petty crime, I almost never see police anymore.

Surely I have some roses colored glasses from my youth but it felt like growing up and in my 20s you would see cops writing tickets. Lots of street racing during the day on busy streets and just general chaos. Without a doubt education and parenting is a root problem for most of these issues.

The idea of people able to simple track cars is elegant and can be a huge multiplier of effectiveness for police. I am generally not opposed to it. The problem as we know is there really is not good safety guards on it. Too many law enforcement have used it improperly. The root there is this idea that the thin blue line exists, police are under educated, trained and paid.

It’s a very mixed feeling for myself.
Show HN: Join anon chat rooms based on your IP info
by ldom22 | 2025-10-06 12:36:57+00:00
Hi everyone, I am working on a chat website, with the unique twist that its anonymous and you get to choose chat rooms based on your ip range

For example, if you are on your work vpn, or your office WiFi, you can join your company’s chat.

It’s an experiment to try to replicate “water cooler chat” but online.

Still trying to attract users to it so let me know any ideas or feedback you might have.
by cm-t | 2025-10-06 12:37:08+00:00
Am french, I can say that most of the voters whatch TV and mainstream medias.

Owned by the french oligarchs (les milliardaires comme on "aime" les appeler). They actually successfully make people think "right wing" is not left or right (for far right) or even centrist (modem), and all the left spectrum is extremist terrorist. Racism, islamophobia, lgbtphobia, anti feminism, and others kyriarchies are normalized.

What make you think the elections are fairs in this context ?
by businessmate | 2025-10-06 12:38:16+00:00
The headlines say Google is collapsing as AI assistants like ChatGPT and Gemini take over. Our tests suggest the truth is more complicated.

Assistants increasingly pre-allocate answers. Brands appear — or vanish — without a click. Google still mediates discovery, but often invisibly. Traffic stability can be misleading. Boards risk assuming safety while competitors substitute inside assistant answers. The verdict: Google is not collapsing, but its power is being hollowed out from above.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-06 12:38:29+00:00
> It's commenting here to stir things up.

I'm not. It's true that I dislike Ruby and prefer everyone would abandon it, but that's orthogonal to the issue we're discussing. In fact I'm saying that the Ruby community is being stupid and shooting themselves in the foot by characterizing relatively mainstream right wing views as "extremism".

If I was being disingenuous I should really encourage this schism!

> It

Dunno if you're a native English speaker or not but the normal way to refer to someone of unknown gender is "they". "It" is offensive.
by lazide | 2025-10-06 12:39:40+00:00
I’m not saying precise. I’m saying it isn’t even an estimate.

You can’t have a distribution with one data point.

It’s similar to the arguments about 3I/Atlas being an alien spacecraft because it’s so ‘weird’.

With so few data points, everything is fundamentally ‘weird’ - or normal - we have no way to tell, so making any sort of statistical argument about it is fundamentally useless and misleading, as statistics is based on groups. And we don’t have a group yet.
by infecto | 2025-10-06 12:39:55+00:00
Unrelated but I like to raise it when I see it. I used to love Disney+ because it was a fairly safe selection of content for children. Netflix pushes a lot of brain rot like cocomelon but Disney had the classics and other calm shows. Sadly I just see lots of blippi now and not only is he pure brain rot for kids, it’s hard to let my kids even think of watching know that he used to film shock videos like him being naked with another dude pooping all over him.

Edit: All/most of the streaming services make it impossible to opt in to shows. It’s either super clunky or they make decisions for you based on age. I find it’s easier to load up what I want in plex and use that as our digital shelf of DVDs.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-06 12:40:26+00:00
Isn't that essentially the definition of a parliamentary government? That would be a MAJOR change to the constitution, I'd imagine. Googling... France is on its 15th constitution, and 5th "Republic", so... I guess it's not as big a deal as I thought.

Frankly, America's 3-house, fixed-term system works, except when a demagogue controls the legislative branch (it works until it doesn't). Term-limited presidency is frighteningly obviously important.

France's executive branch is still not failing as well as Italy, but they're giving it every try at least.
by pmarreck | 2025-10-06 12:40:37+00:00
> Everything had to be fought for: minimum wage, reasonable weekly hours, safe workplaces, child labor, retirement, healthcare...

Fair enough. True.

> Once AI is able to replace a significant part of workers

But it won't do that. It's going to shift people around a lot, like literally every other technological development in the history of mankind, sure. But there's literally no evidence that it's going to do what you're claiming, which means you're arguing against a spooky strawman. It's not like people are going to just sit around doing nothing and going homeless, dude. Ideas (and activity that ends up being economically-tangible) will fill the vacuum.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-06 12:40:41+00:00
There are two devops patterns that WORK:

1. All centrally managed. Engineers hand off repos and devops own the instantiation. Devop is a core team with an infra monorepo.

2. Devops capable engineers are embedded into teams, and each project owns its own infrastructure with golden path guidance.

The hybrid version, central management of most stuff with project specific devops burden, is the worst of both and causes no end of problems.
by IanCal | 2025-10-06 12:40:45+00:00
This is exceptionally early days (hours really), and perhaps over sharing a little personally but I found the same things hard and easy that you describe for working - personally I would work either by rapidly jumping between things (becoming the fix-it guy or go-to person for short things, I was totally fine being constantly interrupted because my head is doing that anyway), or working when exhausted so I found it harder to be distracted, or working last minute for deadlines.

I started some ADHD medication today. I have been able to see distractions and just not engage. I've got a bunch of things done. I've been able to cleanly focus blocks of time that I'd drift away otherwise. I do not have music in my head for the first time in *many many years*. I can stop and breathe.

I have absolutely no idea what would or could work for you, but your comment resonated with me and I wanted to help share something that feels like a big change for me personally and hopefully others. I waited decades to ask a professional and I absolutely should not have done that.
by lapcat | 2025-10-06 12:40:52+00:00
> One scenario: Trump runs as a Vice President on a ticket with someone else as President. 5 minutes after being inaugurated, the President resigns, making Trump President for a third term.

You can conceive of imaginary scenarios, but that's not going to happen. Nobody who wins the Presidency is going to resign. If that's the scenario you're afraid of, it's just silly.

I would note that Republican Senators are reluctant even to bypass the current Democratic filibuster shutting down the government. As much as Republican politicians are deferential to Trump, they still have their own political ambitions. Some of them are biding their time in the hope that they themselves can become the next President.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-06 12:41:38+00:00
Unfortunately, healthcare is cursed.

The demand is just short of infinite, it requires an extremely specialized and highly capable labor force, and it has piss poor labor productivity forever.

Which is why the staff is stretched thin, as a rule and not as an exception.

Not that there's a shortage of other issues that compound that. But even if those issues weren't a thing? The curse is far too strong.
Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?
by xrd | 2025-10-06 12:42:19+00:00
I want to get a second TV which will more or less be a second monitor for my System76 laptop which is plugged into a bunch of music equipment, like a korg midi keyboard, and a novation drum pad, all of which work great with linux.

I want to buy this TV used. I'm seeing a bunch of Samsung, LG, RCA, Sony, etc on Facebook Marketplace. What a cesspool Facebook has become, right?

Any suggestions on the best brand or even model for that kind of thing? I don't really want to battle with a bunch of shit that tries to coerce me to install another app from a streaming provider slash gambling entrypoint.

I imagine mostly it will just need HDMI to work, and all the TVs will support that. But, I thought maybe there would be a fun brand that offers interesting other options.
by evelant | 2025-10-06 12:42:23+00:00
It certainly doesn’t feel good to have turned out being correct after warning that this is where we were headed way back in the dubyah years. This has always been the plan, it hasn’t been hidden, corporate media has just succeeded in sanewashing it for decades. Abdication of journalistic responsibility in the name of profits has allowed construction of alternate realities for so many people that these atrocities are now possible with few noticing.
by ManBeardPc | 2025-10-06 12:42:34+00:00
Yes, that is exactly what is happening. 2000W solar panels feed the battery, up to 800W are allowed to be fed back into the grid/house network. Keep in mind you could also plug a 3000W device directly into the battery, meaning you could power a lot more than that if it is not connected to the grid. If you have devices that need little power for a long duration or high power for a short duration they can be fed with 100% solar that way. Depending on your use case that can save further money.
by srean | 2025-10-06 12:43:13+00:00
Burnout wise, I lasted a couple of decades longer but at times it sure was quite a hell.

I now suspect I would have had a better time had I opted for treatment. Perhaps not burned out in the first place.

My best time professionally was when I had a boss who was tolerant of my working style - disorganized, spread across multiple projects, no two consecutive days on the same project, happy to help other groups for the smell of novelty, sometimes rather too happy to do that, but able to solve technical problems deemed hard and engaging.
by pmarreck | 2025-10-06 12:43:48+00:00
What is demotivating people is negativist-framing-obsessed doomer assholes like you dooming and glooming all the possible negatives and absolutely none of the positives. There's no actual unmanageable bad things occurring, and a ton of upside occurring.

People are literally quitting CS majors because of this BS. Hopefully only the people who aren't meant to do it in the first place, but anyway.
by lapcat | 2025-10-06 12:43:49+00:00
> If they can't amend, they can bypass. Or ignore.

Yes, that was my point! Again, the only path to remaining in power is to completely bypass or ignore the Consitution. There is no legal means, not even nominally.

> If people go out to vote for Donald Trump, and he wins the election for a third term

This is explicitly, clearly unconstitutional.

> or someone just says the right combination of words that wills him into being president for a third time

This is just hand-waving.

> regardless of the constitution, that'll be legitimate enough.

How will it be legitimate at all?

> I have very little faith in both the US and Europe.

You also appear to have very little knowledge of the US.
by Avamander | 2025-10-06 12:44:26+00:00
I'm not. It's just that the math behind AES is very fundamental and incredibly solid compared to a lot of other (asymmetric) cryptographic schemes in use today. Calling the chances of it tiny instead of nearly nonexistent sabotages almost all risk assessments. Especially if it then overshadows other parts of that assessment (like data loss). Even if someone found "new math" and it takes very optimistically 60 years, of what value is that data then? It's not an useful risk assessment if you assess it over infinite time.

But you could also go with something like OTP and then it's actually fundamentally unbreakable. If the data truly is that important, surely double the storage cost would also be worth it.
by lionkor | 2025-10-06 12:44:29+00:00
I feel like the AI hype is big, but there are lots of us who just build normal things and who's jobs cannot allow or make use of LLMs properly.

Popular culture has always been easy to influence. We had blockchain hype, OOP hype, AI hype, Microservices hype, we had so many and they were ALL mostly a fad that resulted in yet-another-tool in the toolbelt of engineers -- nothing more, nothing less.

Good on you for using the right tools to build a new thing!
Ask HN: Apple won't let me sign up for the developer program. What do I do?
by Jean-Philipe | 2025-10-06 12:44:43+00:00
Dear *, I am a software developer who has written some iOS and Android apps for other clients in the past. Now I wanted to sign up for the Apple developer program, but the verification of my German ID card failed every time. The error message says to contact support. I've spoken to support a few times, but they don't know what the problem is and can't help me. They only see that I'm somehow "blocked" - but no reason why. What do I do from here?
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-06 12:45:02+00:00
The problem here is that the far left (LFI) and far right (RN) are both strong, but neither make a majority by far.

In the middle is Macron's party, that everyone hates, but against any other party, he wins, as the majority doesn't want either the far left or the far right to pass.

NFP is a left party alliance, including the moderate left (PS), made necessary because no party in the alliance could win by itself, but they don't really like each other.

It means that it can't be anything but a mess, and I am convinced that that's part of Macron's strategy, as he can only win by default.

I think that presidential election will be fun, as Macron can't be reelected and there is a huge gap to claim.
by vidarh | 2025-10-06 12:45:09+00:00
It's easy to miss, but it's been referenced many times on HN over the years, both as stories:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

and fairly often in comments as well:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by tpm | 2025-10-06 12:45:38+00:00
> It's like in the 60s everyone decided that more modern means more simple and we've only stripped back from then on.

That actually started way sooner than in the 60s. For a good starting point see the 1910 essay Ornament and Crime from Adolf Loos, but even that was a bit after the cultural change already started, though before it was widely applied.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_and_Crime
by wink | 2025-10-06 12:45:39+00:00
The difference between "has a routable IP" and "this should be routed" is exactly the problem for 99% of the population.

I'm not saying NAT is a good thing but at least it's one more thing from preventing network shares of everyone's pictures on shodan. I'm also not saying it's a good protection, but it's not zero.

Maybe if ipv6 had been the default since the beginning, then OSes and default configs would have been written in a better way.
by sfn42 | 2025-10-06 12:48:07+00:00
Same. I just bought pretty much the cheapest used EV I could find that looked alright to me and had enough range. Happy as a clam.

I'm not interested in wasting tens of thousands of dollars on slightly more comfortable seats and stuff like that. I could, it just doesn't seem worth it. I'd rather have the money for other things.

Maybe next time I'll buy a slightly more premium car like a Volvo EC30 or something like that, if I can find a nice used one for a decent price. I don't see any reason to buy new cars. In my market a 4 year old car (still under warranty) is literally less than half the price of a new one. I don't think the warranty is worth that much.
by piva00 | 2025-10-06 12:48:07+00:00
One can also progress from 1. to 2. after living long enough, and realising how much luck has played into their fate.

It took me 10 years of career to realise how lucky I had been, even though I had put work and effort, in no way that alone accounts for my whole professional trajectory. A lot of it was due to sheer luck, by knowing the right people, at the right time, being in the right economical environment of a specific geographical place. Yes, you can work on things under your control to improve your chances with luck but it's still not something in anyone's entire control.

Believing purely in 1. is being blind to this aspect of life in general, a lot of achievements only happened due to luck, there are other thousands of people who were not as lucky and over time it completely changed their paths in life.
by mtlynch | 2025-10-06 12:48:32+00:00
>Thx. The only problem I have with litestream binary is ~31Mb !?

Where are you seeing a 31 MB binary? Latest releases are 10-11 MB.[0]

>This why I prefer to take backup stuff in a side container, eg: https://github.com/atrakic/gin-sqlite/blob/main/compose.yml

Yeah, I agree that's cleaner, but once you're dealing with multiple containers, it's a big step up in complexity, and you can't do the simple install on places like Fly.io and Lightsail.

>As a side note, you might consider revisiting your dockerfiles and skip litestream build steps, eg. in your final stage just add line like this:

>COPY --from=litestream/litestream /usr/local/bin/litestream /bin/litestream

Ah, thanks! The litestream Docker image is new as of 0.5.0.

[0] https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream/releases
by BrouteMinou | 2025-10-06 12:49:08+00:00
When importing a library, it becomes part of your project, therefore it becomes your responsibility to ensure that the imported code is safe and sound.

I am seeing the list of dependencies, and even without looking at the transitive ones, I am sure you didn't review any of those, nor will properly maintain that huge list.

That's a supply chain ticking bomb in my book.

I like Rust, but most projects look like kindergarten collage with no regards to security.
by thatgloomyguy | 2025-10-06 12:49:20+00:00
Just tried this out — really nice execution. It loads instantly, feels lightweight, and everything runs locally (checked network tab — zero external calls

The dark theme looks great and the consistency across all tools is refreshing compared to the usual “one page per utility” sites.

Would love to see a couple more dev-focused tools added (maybe regex tester), but this is already super handy for quick JSON formatting and JWT decoding.

Also appreciate that it works offline — that’s a rare touch for something like this. Bookmarked.
Show HN: Simple Photo Gallery – open-source CLI to create static photo galleries
by vladoh | 2025-10-06 12:49:23+00:00
Hey HN! I built this free and open-source tool out of frustration with how difficult it is to share vacation photos and pictures of our kids with friends and family. There is no tool that lets me create a shareable web gallery with a great mobile experience, the ability to add detailed descriptions, and no login required.

The CLI tool scans a folder and all sub-folders for photos and videos, generates thumbnails optimized for speed and finally creates a static web site to showcase the photos and tell their story. As the gallery is static, you can easily self-host it on any static hosting provider like Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages or GitHub Pages. Everything is written in TypeScript that the site is generated with Astro.

Happy about any feedback or questions :)
by KineticLensman | 2025-10-06 12:49:46+00:00
A similar type of robot is key to the plot of the superbly quirky film 'Brian and Charles' [0] in which a nutty inventor build a robot that looks exactly a weird old-man's head stuck on top of a washing-machine shaped body.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_and_Charles
by nilkn | 2025-10-06 12:50:15+00:00
I think consumer personal finance is hard to disrupt with AI for two reasons: (1) mistakes, hallucinations, etc., aren't acceptable; (2) there really aren't any major secret insights to derive from the data -- just spend within your means, avoid debt or use it sparingly and wisely, target high-interest loans first if you have them, maintain a sufficient emergency fund, max out tax-advantaged accounts, invest in low-fee index funds as much as you can after all of the former. There just isn't much more to it.

If you're already doing all those things, the best way you can help your personal finances is to make good decisions and work hard and with integrity in other areas of your life: grow your career and income, position yourself smartly to lower your odds of layoffs / termination / etc., take care of your health to avoid health-related income disruptions and costs (this includes mental health!), and make smart relationship choices (i.e., don't end up in divorce).

Personal finance is pretty much a solved problem. Breakthrough results generally come from personal and moral discipline sustained consistently over a long period of time. Simple tools like this can help a lot -- I like it.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-06 12:50:49+00:00
"Looks" more legit, and is far more woo-woo.

Those little packs are completely useless if they've been exposed to open air for a few hours. I swear, 99% of the population think those packets reverse the laws of thermodynamics somehow, pumping an infinite amount of water without work.

I'll go with the chemically-valid, physics-valid, non-random white powder.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-06 12:51:33+00:00
LLM reasoning is not logical

Thank you for pointing out the obvious.

The results are probablistic --- not deterministic.

This is a fundamental design characteristic. And it severely limits their utility. Using a LLM for an application where the results are essential is likewise illogical.

Giving an LLM authority or control over anything important (like say your bank account or stock portfolio) is a recipe for calamity.

Unfortunately, some people in positions of authority either don't understand this or they don't care.

https://gizmodo.com/trump-medicare-advantage-plan-artificial...
by account42 | 2025-10-06 12:52:21+00:00
I think his point was that different fields should be treated differently. I.e. if you have two objects with the same ID but different descriptions then you can assume that it's the same object but with a changed description; but if you have two objects with different IDs but the same description then you should assume that the new object is completely different and the identical description is coincidental.

I don't agree that these are always the correct interpretations though. IDs could be reused (especially in a DVCS) or mistaken IDs could be corrected. This ambiguity is a fundamental limitation of the entire concept of diffing, that is reconstructing a set of operations to go from one state to another - you simply don't have the information to deduce the correct logical steps in all cases.