MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Terr_ | 2025-10-24 17:50:22+00:00
Correct, although I can't them every actually going N=67. There are diminishing returns, budgetary costs, difficulty drawing lines, and plenty of residents might simply be against it.

However, that still ought to be California's decision to make, as opposed to minority Wyoming-gang's to veto. Even if a big state doesn't actually do it, having the latent option is itself a subtle influence on interstate politics.
by riotnrrd | 2025-10-24 17:51:07+00:00
> My naive understanding is that by having skins be worth tangible and significant value; this was the primary motivator for players to purchase keys to unbox cases, which was the dominant direct revenue generator for CS.

Yes. The Valve philosophy on the cosmetics marketplace (we called it "the economy") is that you distribute random rewards to players and they can trade and sell and discover the value of those goods for themselves. Obviously, this was done to make money for Valve but, in theory, it's also good for the players. It allows people who have things they don't want to sell them to people who want them. And all this buying and selling happens between Steam wallets (and there is no off-ramp) so at the end of the day, it's all just profit for Valve.

But above all we wanted people to play CS:GO because it was a fun game. We didn't want to turn it into some kind of grim pachinko parlor, with players grinding out matches just to get random loot box drops. So you have to balance the potentially real dollar random rewards so that they're a fun surprise but not economically attractive enough to become a job.
by dekhn | 2025-10-24 17:52:15+00:00
We have an open office surrounded by "breakout offices". I simply squat in one of the offices (I take most meetings over video chat), as do most of the other principals. I don't think I could do my job in an office if I couldn't have a room to work in most of the time.

As for agile: I've made it clear to my PMs that I generally plan on a quarterly/half year basis and my work and other people's work adheres to that schedule, not weekly sprints (we stay up to date in a slack channel, no standups)
by blackhaz | 2025-10-24 17:52:45+00:00
We had Netscape Navigator which began bloating after version 3 eventually becoming Netscape Communicator with various sorts of useless bullshit. When it became so fat it couldn't even start without causing machines to swap, I remember Phoenix came out - a lightweight, fast Mozilla browser. It was a godsend, an immediate hit. I remember all my friends switching to it when it was, like version 0.x, because it was so much faster. A proper no-bullshit WWW experience. Then Phoenix became Firefird, then Firefox. Now Firefox is the new Netscape. Cycle continues.
Show HN: AI Agent for Microsoft Grap Red Team Framework
by sandeep_kamble | 2025-10-24 17:53:07+00:00
a Python-based framework that uses multi-agent coordination (via CrewAI + GPT‑4) to automate the full attack lifecycle of the Microsoft Graph API (recon planning execution). Features include token-scope parsing, endpoint enumeration, autonomous multi-step attack chains (privilege escalation, persistence, lateral movement), retry logic, full logging (with curl equivalents), “crown jewel” target detection, etc.
by jmull | 2025-10-24 17:53:07+00:00
> it's more like the last 6 months

Perhaps it is finally true this time, but the AI hype machine has been making this very same claim for years now.

You'll have to understand if we insist on tangible results before buying that Kool-Aid in bulk.

I wonder how much of the stuff that actually takes up the time of the people we call "designers" to do their jobs is something our current crop of LLMs is good for. If it's 90% then LLMs could make you a 10x designer. If it's 10%, LLMs could make you a 1.11x designer (minus the time it takes to fiddle around with the LLM, of course).
by The_President | 2025-10-24 17:53:15+00:00
Here's the link to the official archives of Firefox browser:

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

You're on your own running these in the wild; at least use a few other layers of security protection. Later versions of Firefox will not run unsigned addons unless you're running a development build, without running it from the debugger page. (Maybe someone can chime in with a workaround.)
by latexr | 2025-10-24 17:53:53+00:00
Personally (I’m not the person you asked) I’m missing AppleScript support. Firefox is the only major browser without it, and the bug report for it is old enough to drink in every country.

That lack of capability prevents it from being my daily driver, even if the rest were good enough (I’m not saying it isn’t, I’m saying I have no reason to find out).

I am certain I have inadvertently pushed many people away from Firefox for that reason alone, because when they ask for me to add Firefox support for my tools, I have to tell them it’s impossible.

I have tried to talk to Firefox developers about that a few times, at open-source conferences and such, but they think AppleScript is some power-user feature and fail (refuse?) to understand power users drive adoption and create tools that regular users rely on.

I remember whenever a Firefox story was submitted on HN, multiple people commented “I want to use Firefox but it’s missing <whatever>”. Then Mozilla started doing a lot of questionable stuff (all of which they eventually abandoned) outside their core competency and even pulling distasteful marketing stunts, and at some point people started commenting even that. I presume many got tired and gave up on Firefox entirely. I almost have. I now root for them only conceptually, because browser diversity is good.

I also noticed that no matter how politely someone pointed out on HN “Firefox doesn’t fit for me because of <whatever>”, they always got downvoted. If valid polite criticism is buried, no wonder things stay the way they are.
by al_be_back | 2025-10-24 17:54:53+00:00
preventing a catastrophe was ARPA's mitigation strategy. the point is where it's heading, not where it is. It's not about AWS per se, or any one company, it's the way it is consolidating. AWS came about by accident - cleverly utilizing spare server capacity from amazon.com.

In it's conception, the internet (not www), was not envisaged as a economical medium - it's success was a lovely side-effect.
by dijit | 2025-10-24 17:54:57+00:00
There is no automatic, fixed timeframe after which a law simply stops being followed because it hasn't been updated or looked at; and remember, we're still applying the FHS, it's in active use even if it's not updated.

Laws remain in force until they are formally:

* Repealed (abolished) by the relevant legislative body (Parliament, Congress, etc.).

* Struck down by a court as unconstitutional or otherwise invalid.

A 150 year "delete" timer would genuinely undermine the foundation of the legal system. Lawyers, judges, and businesses rely on the continuity of core laws (e.g., contract, property, and tax law). If a 150-year-old property law suddenly lapsed, it could instantly void millions of land titles and commercial contracts...
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-10-24 17:55:02+00:00
The species in the article is already adapted to cold weather. They will find out in the spring if it is adapted well enough to survive the icelandic winter

It is remarkable this is the first time mosquitos have been found in the wild in Iceland though. Even if they died out in the winter, you would expect some to hide in shipping containers and lay eggs all summer. Which is how we got Tiger Mosquitos in New Jersey, and now it doesn't get cold enough to kill them and it is so much worse than it used to be.
by duxup | 2025-10-24 17:55:10+00:00
99% of the time I'd just nope out and let them have the room and I did ... many times ... but after a while it was so often it was frustrating.

It was one of the weirder situations I've encountered in the working world. Many of the crying encounters started with what seemed like personal conflicts within the HR team (they sat next to us so you couldn't help but overhear that). Then they'd go to deal with it in the conference room.

Eventually I found a way to safely express the level of distraction and discomfort these constant conflicts were having on me and those around me. Some emotion at work is bound to happen, but folks crying on conference rooms about an argument that seemed to be about banal internal HR processes, there's also an inappropriate amount of emotion too, and that impacts others.

Granted this was the HR team who complained to our management that the 24/7 tech support team who had to be on the phones all day "wasn't very friendly / social" ... it was weird.
by helicone | 2025-10-24 17:55:36+00:00
that's interesting to hear, thanks! and it does confirm my suspicions.

If you don't mind me asking, when you watch sessions, do you have a better way to prioritize the session you watch than just picking at random?

For example, do you have some way to pull out a bunch of session groups from the data automatically so you only have to watch one session in the group to know what the problems were for all of the sessions in that group?
by kbolino | 2025-10-24 17:55:49+00:00
Interesting. I can see how USB-A has better friction/grip in the port (when made properly anyway), but I can't say it has better longevity; I've broken plenty of USB-A connectors and even ports. I am also glad to be rid of the "which way is up" dance, and I don't think anyone has shed any tears for the loss of USB-B.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-24 17:56:06+00:00
Lowe's closing paragraphs are worth quoting here, for the benefit of those who don't read the article:

"And while I’m at it, there is another thing that cannot be overemphasized: if you are spreading doubts and fears about vaccines and about mRNA research, you are killing people who could benefit. Killing them by not protecting them from the diseases being vaccinated against. Killing them by making them suspicious of advances in medical science in general. Killing them by driving them away from things like this new work that could fight completely unrelated diseases like cancer.

"That’s you, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. That’s you, Jay Bhattacharya. That’s you, Marty Makary. And all the rest of your minions and gofers and toadies. You have chosen the side of death and human suffering, and in a better world than this one you would be disgraced and shunned for it."
by gneuron | 2025-10-24 17:56:13+00:00
Put the number of occurrences (I assume that's the # at the end) first to help with signal to noise ratio based on quantity of coverage maybe? I'd also take a look at news minimalist if I were you, and how they used significance scoring as a fill in vs upvotes to provide additional signal: https://www.newsminimalist.com/

It's quite scannable, but obviously you're doing reverse chrono order so up to you how best to solve the UI issue.
by Ekaros | 2025-10-24 17:56:43+00:00
With trading. Market price is not only price. With skins there are lot of preferences. Starting for weapons they apply, not all people use same guns as much. And they might prefer one style of skin over an other skin.

If you are not in to extract most possible value, you might trade a more expensive skin for weapon you do not use in style you do not use for less expensive one for weapon you use more in style you really like.
by jharrison11 | 2025-10-24 17:56:48+00:00
Looks like per their website it did function as intended... It surfaces potential threats for the school to look at and make a human decision. The principal decided to send the police after the school safety team dismissed it as part of the correct process. I mean fire alarms go off for lots of things that are not fire alarms... This was an alert meant to be validated by a human that messed up.

Its pretty clearly documented how it works here:

https://www.omnilert.com/solutions/gun-detection-system https://www.omnilert.com/solutions/ai-gun-detection https://www.omnilert.com/solutions/professional-monitoring
by GeekyBear | 2025-10-24 17:56:53+00:00
> Don't you think it's interesting that it's an option for Macs but not iPad Pros? They both use the same SoC.

Apple has always sold iPads as a closed walled garden and Macs as an open platform.

Apple designed the Apple Silicon Mac hardware to allow you to run an unsigned third party OS without a negative security impact when you run MacOS, because it is an open platform.

However we have definitely seen examples of other formerly open platforms facing new restrictions.

Android was sold to the public as an open platform that Google is actively closing with new restrictions to side loading apps

Windows was sold to the public as an open platform, but Microsoft is locking out users who refuse to use an online account to access their local computer.
by gpm | 2025-10-24 17:57:17+00:00
I can see where you're coming from, but I think I'd prefer to describe practically all stable software as living in an unstable equilibrium in the usable region of state-space. When the stabilizing force of security patches, certificate updates, updates to new hardware requirements, and so on and so forth disappears the software falls out of the usable region of space into the, I suppose stable equilibrium, of unusable software. And this fall happens quite rapidly in the case of a linux distribution.

Applying the word "stable" to things in the unusable region of state space seems technically, but only technically, correct.
by voakbasda | 2025-10-24 17:57:47+00:00
I worked on an embedded product that was leased to customers (not sold). The system included GPLv3 portions (e.g. bash 5.x) but they concluded that we did not need to offer source code to their cuatomers.

The reasoning was that the users didn’t own the device. While I personally believe this is not consistent with recent interpretations of the license by the courts, I think they concluded that it was worth the risk of a customer suing to get the source code, as the company could then pull the hardware and leave that customer high and dry. It is unlikely any of their users a would risk that outcome.
by transpute | 2025-10-24 17:57:51+00:00
> an option for Macs but not iPad Pros

PTSD can block lights in tunnels.

2024: UTM SE entered iOS App Store, https://www.tomshardware.com/phones/iphone/utm-se-emulator-r...

The team implemented a version of the Qemu Tiny-Code Threaded Interpreter (TCTI). Qemu TCTI interprets the code rather than compiling it, allowing Turing Software to get around the JIT ban. Mind you, this results in a rather slow experience even by the standards of the emulated hardware.

2025: https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/01/jit-enabler-lands-on-app-stor...

StikDebug enables on-device JIT for any app, making it possible to run DolphiniOS without sideloading or tethering to a PC or Mac.. approved in the U.S. App Store.

Sep 2025: sideloaded UTM supports JIT on iOS26 with StikDebug, https://x.com/utmapp/status/1967990008364798091
by recursivecaveat | 2025-10-24 17:58:01+00:00
This actually seems like a very good collection of strategies. The only one I use that I see missing is converting a closure capture into an argument. If you design something like: zebra.onmove(|| log(barn.contains(zebra))), then you will find everything locks up due to the references of the closure. Instead you convert the data to args: zebra.onmove(|world, zebra| log(world.barn.contains(zebra))). Obviously with cheap data which you can freeze and copy like a BarnId it's fine to do that.

In general, "stop, drop, reacquire" is a good motto. ie finish figuring out what you want to happen, release the resources that you needed to figure that out, reacquire exactly the resources you need to make the thing happen, do it. That's basically the premise of 'mutation-as-data'.
by tartoran | 2025-10-24 17:58:09+00:00
>When I read a book, I kinda retain the "feeling" of the characters and maybe one or two visual traits. I can read thousands of pages of a character's adventures and I can maybe tell you their general body type and clothing - if they have an "uniform" they tend to wear.

Likewise. It even happens even with the people I know in detail such as family. If I try to project the image of my own son in my minds eye it is not clear and is always shifting, it's more of a feeling than a clear picture. Once, when I was a teenager, I was mugged and when at the police precinct they showed me a booklet with the common offenders in the area. After a few pages I could not remember what my mugger looked like. Always wondered how people manage to rebuild sketches of offenders not knowing as an aphantasiac it's nearly impossible.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-24 17:59:01+00:00
Even before the AS transition, GPUs were becoming more important and Mac OS GPU support was becoming even worse. At some point you were basically limited to a few AMD options. Very unattractive OS for a custom tower by then.

Like I did put a Nvidia 650ti? in my Mac Pro, and it sorta worked initially under OSX, but way slower and glitchier than in Windows and eventually just fully incompatible.
by I_dream_of_Geni | 2025-10-24 17:59:52+00:00
This is exactly the point: "one of anything".

People use that "one thing" and make a giant case out of it, sometimes affecting millions of people. I have two (of hundreds of) examples: 1) the Tylenol poisonings in 1982 Chicago, had Johnson & Johnson recall 31 million bottles of Tylenol, and arguably affected billions of people (with all the tamperproof packaging that resulted worldwide). This was a good thing. But one crazy man poisoning a few bottles of Tylenol at one grocery store affected many people.

2) The next example is somewhat personal, but at Boeing back around 1987 or so, one tech in our engineering group was on the production floor, and a huge steel roller cart with a tool on it, weighing probably 1000 lbs, ran over his toes. From that single incident (even though 1000's of workers and 1000's of heavy carts were being used daily for dozens of years), came an edict that ALL employees on or near these facilities had to mandatorily wear huge plastic toe-caps over their shoes if they didn't have steel-toed shoes on. This meant that even secretaries in nearby offices would have to wear these clunky caps all day, over their shoes even though they never entered the production facilities. One person's action affecting 50,000 nearby employees. This is a bad thing. (because of the huge over-reaction).

So, these maybe don't fit the perfect example we are discussing, but it shows how we can come to different conclusions based on different inputs: "you can find one of anything to use in an argument".
by 9x39 | 2025-10-24 17:59:54+00:00
You're right that it doesn't make sense. It suggests a failure in data handling (who can I share this with?).

A lot of these are borrowed from the US .gov in which prosecution is a relatively effective way to get compliance with these policies, but, and I'll take some license here, are copied to appear sophisticated by unsophisticated players outside of that.
by udev4096 | 2025-10-24 17:59:57+00:00
It's full of people described in this blog post [1]. As it concludes, GTFO! Flagging is the IRL equivalent of crying to your superior instead of actually having an argument which is pathetic

[1] - https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2025/10/15/pathe...
by cardanome | 2025-10-24 18:00:48+00:00
> Again, publishing a photo is IMO another matter.

With analog photography this might be a useful distinction but with digital it is easy to leak that photo even without explicit intention to do so.

Even if the intention was to never share my photo, it is likely to be automatically uploaded to Google Cloud or similar services. It can be hacked, it will end up as training data for some LLM and so on. It is more practical to stop the taking of the photo in the first place.

> it seems weird to me to object to public photography

No one does. Lots of people practice public photography in Germany. You just have to ask for consent if you want to photograph strangers.

That is the point where I am lost an why this is even such a big deal for you. You can photograph the environment, you can photograph your friends, you can photograph anyone who wants to be photographed. Why would you even want to photograph someone why doesn't want their photo taken? Why not take a photo of the many people that would love to have their picture taken?

> when many of us are subjected to pervasive surveillance, both of the governmental and capitalist kind.

Germany has also much better laws in that regard as well. Sure it could be better enforced but the GDPR is super strong.

As for surveillance, this is also more restricted here as well. There is definitely a push to make widespread surveillance more a thing but we are still far away from US levels.

So yeah, both is bad.
by k3nx | 2025-10-24 18:01:31+00:00
You should try to rent a lens to see what works for you. I used lensrentals.com just to try out the 85/1.4 that "everyone" said was awesome. I loved it, but couldn't justify the price for a hobby, so I settled on the 85/1.8. I bought it years ago (4+) and I think I've taken less than 20 pictures with it. My "nifty 50" is still a favorite 50/1.8, but I also love the 70-300/4.5-5.6. Those two are my most used, and both were less than $600 US total.
by shortformblog | 2025-10-24 18:01:59+00:00
They mention Hollow Knight in their update, but I should note that Silksong also works on my M1 Air flawlessly. Games with more 3D graphics also work to some degree. I tried Bakeru on it and got decent results though the texture load time was significant.

Asahi has been fun to watch, and I’m happy it’s still moving along, even with the messiness of the past twelve months. I rarely boot into MacOS on the machine these days, and while I’m mostly using a PC these days, I am debating getting a used M1 Pro or Max for the battery life benefits (and access to Mac graphics programs on the rare occasions I need them).

The fact that M3 is technically possible, even if likely a while off, is promising.
by daxfohl | 2025-10-24 18:02:23+00:00
The chains-of-thought here are artificially constructed, very information-dense partial sums formatted in a specific way that guides the fine tuning. A potential next step would be to look at real-world chains-of-thought and see whether some process could start with those and achieve the same result. Then you could really have a self-improving system!

Also I wonder if the LLM "knows" that it has this capability after fine-tuning. If it encounters multiplication as part of some larger chain-of-thought, will it solve that internally, or will it continue to do it step-by-step in the chain-of-thought?
by dugidugout | 2025-10-24 18:02:41+00:00
Curious how 4x5's inconvenience is "proportional" while 35mm's is "hugely disproportionate". I'm not familiar with the specifics of these formats, but you seem to be arbitrarily drawing the line for where the added friction is still serving the "magic" I believe is very real if not fragile. I think you recognize the value of photography isn't solely in the product. I'm curious what you personally find in 4x5 that saves you from these younger artist's silliness.
by doodlebugging | 2025-10-24 18:02:57+00:00
I have lots of paper wasps and red wasps nesting around my house and on the inside and outside of several outbuildings. They do a great job managing the fly population around here.

If you have a problem with wasps trying to nest under porches at your exterior doors you should paint the underside of the porches sky blue. This will discourage nesting by making the wasps feel like the site is exposed to the weather.