MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-10-05 00:02:23+00:00
Security services. You have to be absolutely blind at this point not to realise this. The "media campaigns" are identical to the ones used for the past few decades, in print media these were run by tabloids and they have moved on, with less success, online (in the 90s, the coverage of the tabloid campaigns was wall-to-wall). OSA was textbook: unrelated tragic event, young child, grieving parents, mentioning this campaign in relation to the OSA repeatedly despite them being unrelated, same thing every time.

The really odd thing is that you have people who will claim that the media is run by right-wing billionaires. On certain topics, you will see every story come from civil servants, the government is just too big (the easiest way to tell is the sources, articles run by civil servants will almost never have actual sources and will usually not be constructed in a logical way, for example a new one is to repeatedly refer to Russia). But because so many people are making so much money from the government, this kind of thing is ignored (and I will also say, the observation that this isn't the actual government just civil servants is important...some newspapers are now notorious for having civil servants contacts who brief journalists against their own ministers, Home Office is the most well-known but it has happened in almost every area...there is nothing that elected officials can do).
by andrewflnr | 2025-10-05 00:02:56+00:00
Dang, I can't post anything in this thread without someone thinking I agree with them that science is BS. Giant impacts aren't actually surprising in an early solar system that hasn't hit steady state yet. If multiple impacts better explain all the evidence for Theia, including the weird patterns of isotopes and possible fragments deep in the mantle, that's news to me.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-05 00:03:09+00:00
> How's Israel going to sustain that long term, especially if they take any amount of ongoing civilian losses at all?

Long term, no clue. The best strategy would be a system of regional alliances, but they've screwed that pooch with Gaza. Second best is setting red lines for Iranian missile production and stockpiles and intervening when those thresholds are breached.
by BubbleRings | 2025-10-05 00:03:45+00:00
I don’t build software, not for many years. And I have monetized individual patents.

Folks, we are just having fun here. Making fun of me. But not for making HN comments that aren’t as well written as you think they should be. For having created, owned, and then let slip through my hands, a patent that ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini say may have been worth a billion dollars. So what if the estimate is off by 100x, so I let $10M slip through my fingers. It is still ridiculous and wild. But seriously who cares about the language I use to describe the thing.
by hakunin | 2025-10-05 00:04:05+00:00
I know it's weird, I'm a long time software guy myself, and would be surprised too if I didn't see this for myself. The thing about us is that our customers are banks. New banks are joining because they already know about us from the other banks. Our founders do the literal legwork of flying places and talking to people, establishing direct relationships, and talking on the phone. This is actually one of our strengths, we are not primarily a tech shop trying to sell tech to banks, but rather our founders are former bankers themselves who are trying to help solve their problems first, and sell tech as a side effect of that.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-10-05 00:04:52+00:00
It's trivial to set up an experiment where you kick a single key with a solenoid and record the result. You can apply different velocity curves to the solenoid and see if there's any variation in timbre.

There probably will be. We're used to thinking of key velocity as a constant, but the escapement mechanism is quite complex and isn't truly instantaneous. There's almost certainly some room for dynamic velocity variation in touch as the key goes down.

Likewise with short vs long notes. I suspect there's some unconscious variation in key release dynamics, which will have a subtle effect.

What you're talking about is the more complex musical effect of many keys at once, with complex variations in timing (intentional and unintentional slurring of chords), dynamics (intentionally highlighting some chord notes over others), and all of the resonant interactions between open strings, dampers, and the frame.

That would be much harder to analyse.
by OptionOfT | 2025-10-05 00:05:18+00:00
When you buy a house you know whether there there is an HOA, so there shouldn't be any surprises.

HOAs are interesting for cities as they cordon off certain parts for which the city pays no street maintenance, no park maintenance, yet it collects full taxes.

For people living in an HOA it can provide amenities like more private parks, pools etc.
by gerdesj | 2025-10-05 00:05:20+00:00
rspamd is my go to solution. Out of the box you get a lot of protection. I use Exim as my MTA but I suggest you use Postfix if you are starting from scratch, only because you will find a lot more write ups on it.

The biggest issue is getting an IP address which is not in the banned lists. IP reputation is key along with SPF and do not send spam!

In the UK a "business" static IP address is sometimes/usually/probably/might be OK. If you are unfortunate then it is already in the lists and you can check that out at point of sign up.

You might look into IPv6 too. I managed to do the Hurricane Electric IPv6 email thing on my home connection for a laugh. That was a few years ago. It seems I need to do something more to get to Guru status.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-05 00:05:26+00:00
> Iran being neutered is propaganda that is necessary for the (failed, for now) Israeli plan of regime change. Iran maintains the ability to build ballistic missiles in large numbers

Iran hasn't been neutralised. It was just reduced to a non-threat during the war. Of course it maintains future capabilities that could be threatening.

> That's not something you do when you've managed to neuter your opponent

Why not? It's an information war.
by dgacmu | 2025-10-05 00:06:23+00:00
Yes. As someone else noted, there's an excellent community on reddit for /r/SolarDIY with a lot of people who do this. The standard setup is to buy an offgrid inverter that will take shore power. Size your unit to handle your entire house. Throw it _behind_ your electrical panel so that it feeds all of your house. You're basically building a DIY whole-house battery backup + solar.

The EG4 gear is really popular for this. Don't go quite as cheap on the inverter or batteries as the OP did - you want something reliable, and for doing whole-house you want rackable batteries that you can easily parallelize and that have controllers you can talk to.
by chatmasta | 2025-10-05 00:08:33+00:00
What is a “UK user?” Someone with their App Store region set to the UK? (Meaning they have a UK payment method.)

What about US citizens living in the UK? Would they have standing to sue Apple in a US court for breach of contract?

I’m also not clear on how Advanced Data Protection could be turned off without affirmative user consent – by definition, won’t the user need to provide their secret key to decrypt their existing data? Or will the iPhone have a multi-hour update where it decrypts its entire iCloud archive on the client-side, and then reuploads it without encryption?
by borroka | 2025-10-05 00:11:25+00:00
I am referring to the gray market: you buy the peptide in powdered form, reconstitute it using bacteriostatic water, store it in the fridge, and inject once a week. The protocols are well known.

Some people titrate (adjust the dose up every two weeks), others stay at the same dose as the initial one (1-2 mg per week), and some fit people use half of the initial dose (0.5 mg per week). Retatrutide/GLP-3, which has yet to be approved for human use (FDA is expected to give the thumbs up by the end of the year), is used, I'd venture to guess, by millions of people at this point.
by jrflowers | 2025-10-05 00:12:15+00:00
I’m admittedly not very good at math. You pointed out that Claude Code got to $500mm ARR in 3 months, but it kind of looks like it actually Anthropic over four years and many billions of dollars to make a product that generates significant revenue (I appreciate their modesty in not bragging about the net profit on that revenue there). I’d say that the users bragging about being able to cost Anthropoid multiple orders of magnitude in costs beyond what they pay them kind of makes the ARR less impressive but I’m not a fancy management scientist

But I’m bad at math and grasping things. If you simply pick a point in time to start counting things and decide what costs you want to count then the business looks very exciting. The math is much more reassuring and the overall climate looks much saner than the dot com bubble because we simply don’t know how much money is being lost, which is fine becau
by leptons | 2025-10-05 00:12:25+00:00
No, you can't film people in public restrooms, but that is an exception. There are limits to freedom of speech. You also can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater if there is no fire.

But yes, recording in public is generally very much allowed, and for good reason. I'm happy that we can film our govenment and dissemenate those recordings when they do something wrong. And that is the same first amendment right that gives government the ability to record too. And there are very few restrictions on recording, so yes, there is no REASONABLE expectation of privacy in public - the situations you outlined are all unreasonable. There are limits to free speech, but that doesn't mean recording in public isn't generally allowed.
by bjackman | 2025-10-05 00:12:31+00:00
I guess this must vary by usecase, but in the Linux kernel work I do, expressiveness is just not an issue. C is a dumb language, it's fine. Coding is just such a small part of the engineering task. Schlepping to write nontrivial stuff in C can be a drag but it's just such a minor thing compared to the task of getting OS software designed correctly that I am not really excited about trying to improve on that axis.

Whereas the memory safety issue is totally fundamental and totally terrifying. There's no other way to solve it than with a new language. The cost of changing languages is staggering but we have no choice. Yet... Paying that cost and not eking out the maximum safety benefit that's practical... Seems a bit dodgy to me.
by akkartik | 2025-10-05 00:13:19+00:00
It's certainly a provocative thought. But I think it's too blunt. In our commercial world sometimes the cheaper thing works better and sometimes the more expensive thing works better. So the lesson I take away is that price is not a great signal in the absence of other context. Trappist brewers have some other cultural norms going for them, and the focus should be on those norms rather than price. The people attracted to it aren't thinking much about the money. If you value them, why would you?
by jleyank | 2025-10-05 00:13:43+00:00
Not surprising as hearing aids are (usually?) considered medical devices and billed accordingly. Hard to get widespread acceptance if they’re several times more expensive than glasses, and seen as somewhat optional for public insurance. I’m not aware of much hearing coverage in N American companies. Perhaps when $100 equivalent earphones are available - simple amplification would help, and a few equalizer bands would be even better.
by greatgib | 2025-10-05 00:14:13+00:00
However, if you prefer not to, we are also introducing a free developer account type that will allow teachers, students, and hobbyists to distribute apps to a limited number of devices without needing to provide a government ID.

So much bullshit, I'm really revolted. They want to pretend that they are nice, it is not locked down. But for real, now you will need to be registered to even only be allowed to have your app installed on maximum "a few" of your relative or friends. On hardware devices owned by consenting adults, without anything related to Google, or touching their servers, still they allow themselves a right to review. Worse than that, you test an app, want some contacts to test? Even if not giving your id, everything will have to be traced to Google HQ. Who are you? Who are your friends? ...

I lobbied everyone for years against Apple devices, switching people to Android to have a little bit more freedom. Now Google Android will be the same shit.

If people working on Google are hanging out around here, please know that your company really sucks now...
by a_bonobo | 2025-10-05 00:14:14+00:00
I still think there's a potential niche for 365 Copilot in its boringness.

At work (not a tech company), there's an ongoing, slow, 365 rollout. The people who participate in the rollout are not technical in any way, but they all love it because they're not regular ChatGPT/Claude users, either. In a way, the restricted feature-set of Copilot compared to ChatGPT helps them, they're overwhelmed enough by Copilot. IT loves 365 because it's so risk-averse. No big jumps, no surprises, clearly defined data and risk policies.

I think if they drill down into the boring, slow, predictable, they will capture the market of risk-averse non-tech companies, not people.

I've tried building agents using 365 for our internal documents and they're OK for basic stuff (what's in what document where - max 20 documents only!!), but langchain/RAG/whatever are a million times more powerful.
by lioeters | 2025-10-05 00:16:14+00:00
Aww, that was sweet, the opposite of bullying or ribbing. I guess for some people it's too sweet for their taste/culture/personality, they're more used to the "mean kind of nice". I prefer the straight up kind of nice, like this, where I don't have to be on my feet for getting attacked. Writing this out, I see similarities with "play fighting" among cats or dogs.
by hxorr | 2025-10-05 00:16:18+00:00
I especially like this:

GUIs for everything

The objective is that everything in Easy be configured by simple GUIs, without having to fiddle about on the commandline. This includes management of SFS files, BootManager, VersionControl, EasyContainers, pup_event, BluePup, EasyShare., MSCW (Multiple Sound Card Wizard), EasyApps, EasySetup and EasyJWM.
by thro1 | 2025-10-05 00:16:31+00:00
I think that's good example (you can easy study yourself - as he did practice enough - mostly Chopin, as a child, then jazz):

Leszek Możdżer - Piano ( - Exploris, .. ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOicB0vcbf8&list=PLMigLc8yVp...

- moreover, he may indeed be touching strings occasionally - with or without using the hammers :)
by kashunstva | 2025-10-05 00:17:41+00:00
> Why are we asking for profits companies to fight our fights?

Maybe we're not asking them to fight our fights, but to stop tipping the scales one way or the other. There's a difference between asking them to aid progressive or regressive causes vs. actually staying neutral. If it's too big a moral burden on Apple or Google, then allow us to run whatever we want on our devices.
by mopsi | 2025-10-05 00:21:20+00:00
The article you linked is from 2007. Bush did indeed express strong support for offering Ukraine and Georgia a path to NATO membership at the 2008 NATO summit, but he was overruled by other allies[1] who caved in to pressure from Russia, and the topic was taken off the table and remains there.

Putin's former senior advisor Illarionov maintains that the idea of invading Ukraine goes back much further than the 2008 summit. He says that he personally first heard of the idea from Putin during a closed meeting of senior staff in September 2003, when Russia first violated Ukraine's sovereign territory during the Tuzla Island conflict.[2]

[1] Like Germany under Schröder, who was later rewarded with the well-paid position of chairman of the board of Rosneft, Russia's state-controlled oil company.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Tuzla_Island_conflict
by groovy2shoes | 2025-10-05 00:23:11+00:00
i am inclined to agree on all points, and while the second parenthetical would be useful in Contemporary English, i cannot help but note that "þ" and "ð" in Old English both represented the same phoneme (unlike in, say, Icelandic). all of the OE fricatives (/s/, /f/, /þ/) had predictable phonetic voicing depending on environment (voiced intervocalically, unvoiced elsewhere), but no phonemic distinction. in extant MSS, <þ> and <ð> are completely interchangable, mere stylistic variants of writing the phoneme, and even texts written by a single scribe will often have the same word written with both letters. some older MSS will use a plain <d> for the voiced sound (and a plain <b> for the voiced /f/). i've seen at least one MS that used <th>. in Latinized versions of OE names, it's not uncommon to see <th> or <d>, but Classical OE spelling didn't generally distinguish the voiced or unvoiced.

even in Contemporary OE, there are very few minimal pairs between /þ/ and /ð/ ("thigh" vs. "thy" comes to mind, but not much else apart from rare noun/verb combos like "loath" vs. "loathe"). it could be argued that we don't really need both, but the (surely obvious by now) pedant in me desires both. saying "boð" rather than "boþ" doesn't strictly change the meaning, and is not likely to cause confusion, but it sure sounds off!
Show HN: Churches in Boulder – search tool using agentic retrieval
by joesuh | 2025-10-05 00:24:24+00:00
I made a chatbot-based search engine that does agentic RAG using the Youtube channels, websites, and google reviews of all churches in Boulder, CO

I tried a couple different approaches to this, but the one I'm currently liking is a MapReduce approach that takes a query, does some pre-filtering, and maps it to the individual vector databases of all the churches. Then the Reduce step synthesizes the individual church results to return the response to a user

For example, if you ask it "LQBTQ-friendly church" it will loop through asking all the individual churches the question "Are you LGBTQ-friendly?" and then return a consolidated response from the individual responses. Latency on TTFT is about 6-7 seconds currently

Another approach we took was using Mixture of Experts. In this case, we have 3 separate retrievals - one for sermons, one for website content, and one for google reviews. And then mix the results together to respond. This MoE approach is very slow right now and I'm trying to speed it up. But you can play with it as well https://pastors.ai/churches/boulder?mode=moe

I know the HN audience isn't made up of churchgoers, but I hope HN appreciates the AI engineering behind this project. There's a bunch of reranking, query rewriting, etc behind the scenes for the different approaches. It's a hackathon project that's WIP, so I'm still working on polishing it. Happy to answer any questions or hear technical suggestions/feedback!
by andrewflnr | 2025-10-05 00:25:53+00:00
Well, 3 million is "millions". Anyway, that very quote continues:

> "...this is surprisingly fast," says first author Kruttasch.

So they don't entirely disagree that it's weird.

But why are you replying to me with a quote from the article I already called a mess? Try your hand at the paper if you want real answers. :D Like I said, tough going, but they sure seem to think they have the sigfigs to back it up.
by pandaman | 2025-10-05 00:27:35+00:00
I don't know where you live, but calling cops over noise nuisance has not worked in most cities in the US for a long time. E.g. with LAPD you will be lucky if cops will show up in 4 hours and if they show up they are not going to ticket anybody. And there is nothing you can do about it. "Petty" crime is free-for-all in any city with a "restorative justice" DA. So we need to use other means to slow down our degrading quality of life.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-05 00:29:10+00:00
Let's see... You could make people try a VR driving simulator and make them face various provocations and see how they react... You could put a car out on the road which is driven badly and try putting different bumper stickers on to see how people respond. If it wound up in a crash it would be like mashing up both of Zimbardo's experiments that you could never do today. [1] [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

[2] https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/policings-hidden-curri...
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-10-05 00:29:12+00:00
Disappointing to see articles from respected news outlets get flagged and vanished but this load-of-crap whining how academics don't care about real life questions that is peppered with 'medical "science"' in scare quotes while not even attempting to approach the question (or paradox, if it is one) in a constructive manner—this low-effort low-value scientifically illiterate worse-than-nothing gets to sit in this space and silently advertise diffused bad feelings and broadly-cast misgivings. Sad.
by xylophile | 2025-10-05 00:30:48+00:00
I came to this thread purely to see if I was the only enlightened one.

Stalwart is perfect for small self-hosters: a single binary, a single-directory resilient datastore (by default), a UI for every setting, and defaults that guide you to a DNS config which maximizes your sender score. Plus support for all of the "power user" features such as ManageSieve and shared CalDav folders.

Honestly, I love hosting my email now. And the last remaining battery which could possibly be included is now WIP: webmail!

Unix philosophy need not apply when there is exactly one use case for integrating these tools. (Or at least, one case which covers 99% of users. The remainder can keep their managerie of arcane config formats and susceptibility to unsafe language CVEs.)
by db48x | 2025-10-05 00:32:43+00:00
Sure, I believe them when they say that they’ve got all the food. I believe them when they say that if the residents of Gaza don’t want to starve then they should send their sons to sign up as a soldier. I believe them when they say that they want to kill all Jews between the River and the Sea. They may not be very trustworthy in most respects, but when they say these things then I believe them. Not much reason not to.
by chpatrick | 2025-10-05 00:32:52+00:00
Sure, sufficiently advanced dominoes.

https://xkcd.com/505/

We're already at the point where LLMs can beat the Turing test. If we define thinking as something only humans can do, then we can't decide if anyone is thinking at all just by talking to them through text, because we can't tell if they're human any more.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-05 00:33:08+00:00
> compiler devs try to be compatible with it.

You have to squint fairly hard to get here for any of the major C++ compilers.

I guess maybe someone like Sean Baxter will know the extent to which, in theory, you can discern the guts of C++ by reading the ISO document (or, more practically, the freely available PDF drafts, essentially nobody reads the actual document, no not even Microsoft bothers to spend $$$ to buy an essentially identical PDF)

My guess would be that it's at least helpful, but nowhere close to enough.

And that's ignoring the fact that the popular implementations do not implement any particular ISO standard, in each case their target is just C++ in some more general sense, they might offer "version" switches, but they explicitly do not promise to implement the actual versions of the ISO C++ programming language standard denoted by those versions.