MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by voxl | 2025-10-03 05:14:15+00:00
Single payer absolutely does something it's insane you would suggest otherwise. It's a basic counting argument: if 60 out of 100 are paying into the system but we have to pay ER fees for the other 40 not paying, then there is an undo burden on the original 60.

If everyone is paying then the burden is shared. Let's not even imagine the utopia of a progressive healthcare tax! The shame of a "self-made business man" losing 5% more of their income earned over 200k!
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-03 05:14:30+00:00
The author says this in their OP:

> The phones are too fiddly now, and pressing random things as they try to hold the phone meant the phone got lost in a sea of opening stuff up. So, I tried the assistive access, but why isn’t this an option from the get-go? It asks you the age of setup; why not have a 65+ or something for a senior mode?
by cmeshare | 2025-10-03 05:14:57+00:00
Hey HN! Creator here. I built TWOCLICKS.ai after watching journalists spend 2+ hours gathering climate data from NASA, NOAA, and NSIDC for each story.

The autonomous agent runs 24/7, making intelligent decisions about when to fetch updates based on each source's cycle (NASA monthly, NOAA weekly, NSIDC daily). It flags data quality transparently so users always know what they're looking at.

Happy to answer any questions about the agentic approach to data aggregation or the technical stack!

Tech: React/Next.js, PostgreSQL (Supabase), Vercel, GitHub Actions
by ZPrimed | 2025-10-03 05:15:19+00:00
This is part of why I absolutely LOATHE the multiple "sign-in-with-Y" prompts on everything.

Federation's not a terrible idea for people who don't "get it," but many places are then starting to _hide_ the standard email-based login form... it's bonkers.

Google can go DIAF for their browser-based forced popover that so many sites have opted-in to (so they can sell more expensive ads, of course). [I use Vivaldi which is Chromium-based and AFAIK there's no way to shut off those prompts]
by adityaathalye | 2025-10-03 05:15:49+00:00
The neat thing about org-mode for writing and publishing (I don't use it for "productivity") is that every time I have a new requirement, there is a solution that I can integrate into my existing writing workflow. And I get multimedia publishing "for free".

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157672

Why and How I use "Org Mode" for my writing and more 217 points by sebg 7 months ago | 64 comments

src: https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite/blob/master/sources/p...
by loveboobayes | 2025-10-03 05:16:07+00:00
It is 100% happening. In the same way Reddit gives you curated posts using some sort of AI trickery. I am guessing it is some sort of advertising tracker feedloop from the ISP feeding your data to advertisers and it getting looped back to you. And these posts seem inorganic, either created by bots or cherry-picked based on your viewing habits to be shown to you.

You will not stifle my question with your redditor bot "this isn't happening" nonsense.
by Veserv | 2025-10-03 05:16:11+00:00
But all you need to do to open the door mechanically is rummage around in the rear door pocket, remove the rubber mat, then pull the mechanical release cable: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T4Rs2OQLrWw

What could be simpler after getting into a crash?

And there is no reason to talk about how people burn to death in Tesla's at ~4x the per-mile rate of the average car. I mean, Tesla releases intentionally deceptive statistics on their website [1] to convince you that you have ~8x the probability of getting into a fire in a non-Tesla and just intentionally not informing customers about the part where those fires are ~32x more likely to kill you. And that 4x excess fire death rate only results in like 4x as many excess fire deaths per year as the Ford Pinto; so really what is the harm?

[1] https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 05:16:18+00:00
> How did they "neuter" Iran? Iran responded quickly and managed to heavily damage TelAviv

Israel gained air superiority over Iran and successfully conducted military decapitation strikes. Iran sort of launched some half-assed rockets in Israel's direction.

The only damage Israel has suffered is to its intelligence faculties in Iran.

> the previous operation was a disaster, it allowed to regime to entrench itself even further in IRAN and regime change that they were hoping for didn't happen

It was a tactical failure and strategic success. Iran's proxies have been shown they're completely fucking on their own--Tehran can't defend itself.

As for regime change, Israel didn't prosecute its war in a way that suggests that was the aim. Separatism? Yes. Destabilisation? Sure. Incapacitation? Surely. But regime change? I really don't think so. Knocking out the regime would likely mean elements of the IRGC consolidating power. That isn't a win for Israel.

> I'm sure both Iran and Israel are gearing up for another round of heavy conflict later this year or early next year

Iran doesn't have the ranged capability.

> IRAN is still very much a threat to Israel

I haven't seen any credible, impartial analysis that suggests this is remotely the case.
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by magicalhippo | 2025-10-03 05:16:32+00:00
According to Bowers while speaking to local Fox affiliate KTVU, a bystander had gotten out of his car and pulled the surviving occupant out from the mangled vehicle.

From this[1] earlier article.

I've heard plenty of stories of regular cars having their doors get stuck in crashes, due to the frame bending, and firefighters having to cut the vehicle to get people out.

That said, seems[2] the electronic latches have been an issue for some time:

On October 24, just after midnight, a Tesla Model Y with five people inside crashed into a guard rail on a Toronto street, bursting into flames.

The car’s electronic door latches wouldn’t open, so rescuers couldn’t get in -- and the victims couldn’t get out.

And it’s not the first time something like this has happened. Back in 2019, a doctor in South Florida crashed his Tesla Model S into a palm tree, and the electronic doors wouldn’t open. He was trapped inside and died.

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/3-dead-after-tesla-cybertruck-crash...

[2]: https://www.azfamily.com/2024/11/22/deadly-crash-highlights-...
by palmfacehn | 2025-10-03 05:18:38+00:00
It is a cute technique, but I would prefer if the fingerprint were used higher up in the stack. The fingerprint should be compared against the User-Agent. I'm more interested in blocking curl when it is specifically reporting itself as Chrome/x.y.z.

Most of the abusive scraping is much lower hanging fruit. It is easy to identify the bots and relate that back to ASNs. You can then block all of Huawei cloud and the other usual suspects. Many networks aren't worth allowing at this point.

For the rest, the standard advice about performant sites applies.
by famouswaffles | 2025-10-03 05:19:54+00:00
>No one is using Meta AI because it's shoehorned into contexts where you don't actually need it.

What's shoehorned about LLMs in a messaging app? This kind of casual conversation is a significant amount of LLM usage? Open AI says non-work queries account for about 70% of ChatGPT usage. They say that '“Practical Guidance,” “Seeking Information,” and “Writing”' are the 3 mot common topics, so really, how is it shoehorned to place this in Facebook ? [0]

>For the average person, what's the most serious / valuable use of ChatGPT right now? It's stuff like writing essays, composing emails, planning tasks. This is precisely the context in which Google has a foothold. You don't need to open ChatGPT and then copy-and-paste if you have an AI button directly in the text editor or in the email app.

Lol I don't know what else to tell you but that really doesn't matter, but it's not like you have to take my word for it. Copilot is baked in the Microsoft Office Suite. The Microsoft Office Suite dwarfs Google Docs, Sheets etc (yes even for students) in terms of usage. What impact has this had on Open AI and chatGPT ? Absolutely nothing.

[0] https://openai.com/index/how-people-are-using-chatgpt/
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 05:20:00+00:00
The last time Palestinians voted they quite literally elected Hamas terrorists[0], you're making it out as if making Jews a minority and Palestinians a majority in Israel wouldn't represent an existential threat to the Jewish population. There are zero Jews living under Palestinian rule(i.e Gaza and the West Bank Areas A/B), why do you think it would be any different if they were given majority voting rights in Israel?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_e...
by scrubs | 2025-10-03 05:20:41+00:00
If true the dems should allow the government to stay closed until this can be fixed. They need some street smarts: flush out the BS now. Voters need to know what the heck is going on. I hate to write it but we may need visit a crappy local minimum (accept a crap show short term) to move back to a higher maximum than we are now.

The money the US (that's us folks) spend on medicine is crimally stupid. Heck I had doctor in laws.. one runs medstar in dc both of who have nothing nice to say about the finance/insurance side of medicine.

Now, I hasten to add let's not throw the baby out with the bath water: doctors and nurses are generally people who want to help through science, and that's a good thing.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 05:20:47+00:00
> Even now they can get the Chinese on the line in a minutes notice. I’m pretty sure the Chinese are running one of their ports

China has actually been more arms length in this conflict, possibly due to its relations with Iran, possibly because it wants Israel to fully commit east. (Possibly because they have a moral position on occupation and genocide, though unlikely, it's not like they're handing back Tibet and Xinxiang.)
by barrister | 2025-10-03 05:21:04+00:00
Very likely the same way that targeted advertising is carried out, which most certainly does occur. Also, 4chan has a history with law enforcement, including the FBI, and the military. Moreover multiple studies have been carried out by academia including by the Israeli military in regard to demographics. The point is that an entity like Palantir could be applied to reduce hate speech and violence. Rather than serve an ad it uses AI to generate a post that is humorous yet very curated in an intrusive insidious fashion.
by AngryData | 2025-10-03 05:21:19+00:00
Could not part of its poverty problem be caused by the restrictive travel time and rough terrain that this bridge avoids and could help them become prosperous? If you only build prosperous things for prosperous areas, poorer areas will never get better and could even get worse in comparison as competing becomes even harder.

Its like if you put a dimensional portal across a Great Lake, even if neither side of the portal is currently not very prosperous, the fact that hours of ferry turned into minutes of travel would be a huge boon to both sides and gather attention, investments, and economic benefits that could turn both sides into prosperous cities.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-10-03 05:21:29+00:00
It's quite the opposite. Since the end of monarchies we actually don't observe stable autocracies anymore. They used to last for millennia, now they don't even get to a century.

An autocracy is an idea but an autocrat is a human who cares about himself. Anyone capable of carrying the torch is seen as threat and gets exiled, imprisoned or killed. In the end it's scorched earth within the current elites so instead of succession you get revolution with say 40-50% chance. You may get the succession to work once, maybe two-three times if you're lucky, but that's it.

Now contrast it with a world where an autocrat doesn't actually need a successor and can run the country indefinitely.
by ZPrimed | 2025-10-03 05:21:54+00:00
oh come on, you just need to buy a Mac so you can use one of the management toolkits to prevent that from happening. it Just Works!

_deeply_ /s of course

(and I say this as someone who is basically 100% a Mac user who admins Linux for a living... Apple makes a lot of stupid / frustrating decisions that I don't agree with, but I still prefer it over the alternatives)
by curioussquirrel | 2025-10-03 05:21:57+00:00
I can't and won't argue that AI is currently overhyped and that there are people whose lives are miserable because they're being forced to use bad AI implementations.

However, I see a lot of people around me who pay for LLMs from their own pocket when their employer won't foot the bill for them. And if it's their own money at stake, you can be pretty sure that they see some ROI there.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 05:22:02+00:00
> curious to know what it is that India didn't fare well in the recent conflict

Pakistan shot down Indian plane(s). India didn't return the favour. Worse, Pakistan's integrated air defence systems had situational awareness; it's clear Indian Rafale pilots didn't even see the shots coming.

It's not a victory for one side or the other, overall. But in the air battle, Pakistan gained tactical supremacy.
by BrenBarn | 2025-10-03 05:22:14+00:00
This isn't a real answer your question, it's just an idea that's crossed my mind a few times.

We've seen with the exploding pagers and all kinds of other covert ops that Israel has a really powerful spy network that's capable of doing precisely targeted strikes that kill specific people. Could they put a lot more into that and use it to carry out an enormous infiltration of Hamas and assassinate lots and lots of Hamas fighters? Like not just leaders but even lower-level participants? It's true that if you detonate someone's pager in a cafe you may injure or kill some bystanders, but it seems like such collateral damage would have to be multiple orders of magnitude less than what's going on right now.
by adityaathalye | 2025-10-03 05:22:55+00:00
Ditto. I wanted to show JavaScript text art animation, and could "just" do this:

*** ~setInterval~ and ~setTimeout~ worked just right These let us call functions that do exactly the thing we want, viz. punch /[[#the-aesthetic-of-text-art-and-its-animation][characters]]/ into our "live spreadsheet" medium, exactly the way the artist placed them in the original art source. These methods can make a CPU sing, but hey, the awesome art is worth every watt it, ah, draws. #+html: <div class="box invert"> #+html: <em>Random twitch loop <code>setTimeout</code> and recursion.</em> #+html: <div id="blink-demo"></div> #+html: </div> #+html: <script type="text/javascript">demoBlink();</script> #+html: <div class="box invert"> #+html: <em>Flipbook-like frame-by-frame animation loop with <code>setInterval</code>.</em> #+html: <div id="glider-demo"></div> #+html: </div> #+html: <script type="text/javascript">demoGlider();</script>

This works very nicely because I've structured my website as "every post is just a microsite". See:

src: https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite/tree/master/sources/p...

\_ (develop %|u+4) $ tree sources/posts/animate-text-art-javascript/ sources/posts/animate-text-art-javascript/ ├── animations.js ├── blink.ddw ├── DarkDrawSheetView.png ├── glider.ddw ├── HanukkahOfData2022ArtCopyrightDwimmertxt.png ├── HanukkahOfData2022ArtSliceCopyrightDwimmertxt.png ├── HanukkahOfData2022DarkDrawDrawingViewCopyrightDwimmer.png ├── HanukkahOfData2022DarkDrawSheetViewCopyrightDwimmer.png ├── index.org ├── loading.ddw └── spinner.ddw 1 directory, 11 files
by Stevvo | 2025-10-03 05:23:46+00:00
Even if Israel actually were trying to recover the hostages, this wouldn't make sense. Over 20,000 dead Palestinian children and blocking aid does not recover any hostages. On the contrary, it only fuels the terror ideology ensuring Hamas is never eradicated. Israel is responsible for its own actions. It is not Hamas who is using starvation as a weapon of war, it is Israel.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-03 05:24:46+00:00
Vastly more ICE cars catch fire every year than Teslas do. They get zero news coverage. But as you say ICE cars are also vastly easier to put out. We train on EV fires to spray them with water for hours because that's what it takes.

Easier said than done when you have to shuttle water with tenders as we often do.
by rendaw | 2025-10-03 05:25:47+00:00
Is cyclic siloxanes the same as cyclosiloxane?

I thought silicone was recommended over plastics/nonstick/etc because it's inert and chemically simple. The wikipedia says that cyclosiloxane is volatile, often used as a solvent, and evaporates.

Since it declines over time, it doesn't seem to be the result of normal wear/tear of the bakeware which does suggest it's something added during the manufacturing process. I've heard of doing an initial bake of silicone bakeware to remove factory stuff...

So is silicone as a cooking material actually fairly complex, new, and not as well understood as I thought (similar to plastics)? Or is this an avoidable manufacturing thing.

Also they mention "concerns", but I couldn't find any known health risks. Is this similar to microplastics, where it could be an issue but it isn't clear yet? Or are they known to be harmful?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 05:26:16+00:00
> Introducing my magical new fighter jet that replaces the f35

You really think the French, Swedes, Russians or Chinese won't sell them planes? They're seeking to be a regional power. They don't need F-35s. (Though they're certainly handy.)

> probably didn't work great given how India fared recently, did it?

India doesn't field Israeli air defences...

> only thing China reliably does is single-mindedly pursue their interests. Propping Israel up doesn't achieve that

I'll grant that China has been the most consistent on Israel and Palestine. Nevertheless, Israeli-Chinese trade keeps growing.

> If you say so. The chances of the Five Eyes breaking with America on recognizing Palestine were also exactly zero just a few months ago

Really? According to whom? I haven't been in the UN for a while, but everyone I knew was asking when, not if. It clearly works for domestic politics, doubly following the recent trade concessions.

Netherlands (not Five Eyes) was 1 in 3 [1]. Canada and France were making motions for a while; Japan and Italy were like 50% going back two months.

> they're the only ones who have the money for it

The U.S. funds about 15% of Israel's defence budget. We allow them to splurge in a way they can't alone. But that just means they can't defeat Hezbollah and Iran and Hamas at the same time without us.

[1] https://kalshi.com/markets/kxrecogpalestine/palestine-recogn...
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-03 05:28:14+00:00
> World Central Kitchen is active in Gaza and last I checked makes no claim of there being a genocide in Gaza.

They don't talk about genocide, true, but they do talk about the famine they're seeing and the extreme difficulty of getting humanitarian aid into Gaza - causing them to have almost ceased food delivery at the beginning of this year, before finding ingenious new ways of cooking and delivering supplies.

It's also funny to pick an organization which has suffered one of the most clear and well documented assassinations of aid workers by Israeli forces, the World Central Kitchen attack in 2024. This was one of the cases that even the IDF couldn't invent a justification for (the convoy they killed had been coordinating constantly with them, they had followed the root exactly, etc). They called it a regrettable error, of course.

> What seems to be implied here is that these are the means in which the Jews control the world. Casting Israelis/Jews as demonic figures in general is also a common antisemitic trope.

The comic is quite explicit, we don't have to look for implicit innuendo. It says that these forces (imperialism, capitalism, etc) are the main reasons for food insecurity everywhere this happens in the world, and Gaza is just one example. While Israel, backed by the USA, is the aggressor in the case of Gaza, the same forces (again, meaning imperialist tendencies, not some conspiracy of "evil Jews") behind other acts of aggression by other states in other places impacted by famine.
by socalgal2 | 2025-10-03 05:28:58+00:00
long lasting warts might be evidence that the software is backward compatible. It might also be evidence the software is full of footguns and ways to screw yourself.

I'm sure it's an unpopular opinion but sh/bash scripts suck. There are magic incantations all over and if you get one wrong then you've got code injection. We can't go back and fix it but we could either replace it, or update in some way so it it's easy to be safe and only one way to do things that "does the right and safe thing" always.

I don't think keeping unsafe by default is a good model and I think all of the daily headlines of people/companies/hospitals/airports/goverments being hacked in large part because we keep the warts.
by alex43578 | 2025-10-03 05:29:46+00:00
Not to nitpick, but just because it's the example you gave: Wi-Fi settings in the control center are the same as they have been for years (or easier, as I don't remember the dropdown menu in the earliest versions).

The UX paradigm of a tap for the primary function and a press for alternate functions (for Wi-Fi: On/off, or to select networks) is the same across much of iOS, including Safari and 3rd party apps.

Admittedly it's not the best for discoverability, and the elimination of Haptic Touch has made it slightly more awkward to trigger, but it's not a totally new behavior to learn.

Are you on a significantly older device that might be having some performance issues? Supposedly the new glass UI is heavier and could be slowing down the device enough to cause issues.
by tomhow | 2025-10-03 05:29:58+00:00
Could you please stop posting ideological flamebait? Looking at your history, most of your comments seem related to politics/ideology, including multiple comments referencing stereotypes, like this one [1]. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We have to ban accounts that continue to do this after being warned.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45230809