MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-27 15:53:54+00:00
No, the PSF doesn't want to expose its finances to special risk from the Trump Administration’s attempts to paint inclusion as discrimination as a pretext for exerting control that the law itself does not justify over institutions receiving federal funding, finding the risk:reward ratio unjustified for a $1.5M grant. (Note that the actual term purports to prohibit only what the law already prohibits, which is a clue that a naive reading cannot reveal their motive, since under a naive reading they would be equally risk for the behavior that would violate the terms whether or not ot agrees to them or received the grant. So you have to look beyond the agreement to the context of the behavior of the Trump Administration in regards to the issue addressed in the terms and federal funding.)
by sponaugle | 2025-10-27 15:54:34+00:00
"But I’m also surprised to see so many comments advocating for the CTO disconnecting from the code in favor of doing more people management. As soon as they stop writing code their skills start decaying, their advice and technical direction is reduced to platitudes and thought leadership. It may seem like a CTO who doesn't code will stop making technical decisions and just delegate, but I’d posit that they make decisions regardless, just worse ones."

The distinction might be something more subtle - I think s good CTO should maintain a deep technical skill, but should do so without putting the technology of the company in jeopardy. I write code, and am a CTO, but I don't write code for our products. I write code in order to continue to develop and maintain deep technical skill. I also manage our technical operations, so I make an effort to a good understanding of the technical areas that are needed to operate - networking, device configuration, IP, etc. In a pinch I am fully capable of making a configuration change to a Cisco switch or a Palo Alto firewall, but in practice I have a team of people that are much better at those tasks. That allows delegation and understanding.
by echelon | 2025-10-27 15:54:45+00:00
> because Fyrox appears to be the most mature Rust game engine, but nobody uses it or cares about it.

Bevy gets all the hype, but Fyrox has more maturity in a lot of surface area.

Bevy is led by a large team, and the leadership is ex-Google.

Fyrox is one solo Russian developer with 10x engineering output.

Bevy is ECS, Fyrox isn't.

Bevy does a great job marketing itself, it has a foundation and a large community, and people are excited to try and use ECS.
by illiac786 | 2025-10-27 15:55:08+00:00
Brilliant people exist, maybe brilliant group of people, say 30-50, beyond that, it doesn’t exist in my view. Apple is a behemoth, with its faire share of slop, just like all behemoths.

People keep expecting Apple to be something else than a profit oriented company.

So far, the proportion of their revenue coming from ads is still lower than google by far, hence statistically I have less chances of being the product with them, hence I choose them.

I definitely don’t choose them because their products are better. The hardware and its software support duration, maybe, but the software is definitely worse than google’s, especially assistant and maps.
by tzs | 2025-10-27 15:55:13+00:00
They have switched people to the plan with Copilot in the US too. I just checked and next renewal is set for the $99 plan with Copilot instead of the $69 plan I had been on.

I remember some email from them saying the Copilot was now on my plan, but I don't recall anything saying that this was actually a different, more expansive plan, or that Copilot was just a trial and the plan would switch until I took action, or anything like that.

Here's how to get back to your old plan:

• find the Services & Subscriptions page on your account and select Manage.

• click "Cancel Subscription".

• On the page that brings up there will be an option to switch to a different plan. That should have the "Personal Classic" plan. There's also "Family Classic" for people that want the family plan without Copilot.

Another way that some have reported works is to simply turn off recurring billing. That then sometimes triggers an offer to switch plans that includes the Classic plans.
by lunias | 2025-10-27 15:55:26+00:00
Do they mean immigrants or illegal immigrants? Do they mean citizens, permanent residents, or some other status?

I'm very anti-surveillance, this shouldn't be allowed, but I feel like a lot of articles are being disingenuous by means of this omission. Is this a problem that only affects immigrants? It doesn't seem that way to me, but by presenting it that way they knowingly divide people and thus make it less likely that a group will prevent or reverse this action. These are the types of articles I'd write if I wanted this issue to drop off the radar of a large portion of the voting population.
by airstrike | 2025-10-27 15:55:39+00:00
I have built it. It hasn't existed for long enough for me to say I've maintained it for an extended period of time, but then again I did not claim that. Nor did I use the word "certain". There's no certainty in life.

I hear your point, but it's important to note I'm not making those claims and I don't think all of that needs to be true for it to be some value of "enterprise-ready". You and I may disagree on the meaning of that term, and that's fine.
by foldr | 2025-10-27 15:55:50+00:00
> But often people still can't stand that there are such great teams and want to drag them down in one way or another.

This seems like an unnecessary attribution of malicious intentions. The obvious explanation for why people often oppose a culture of long hours is that long hours suck for anyone with a life outside of work. You explain this yourself with the example of someone who has kids.
by mindslight | 2025-10-27 15:55:55+00:00
> the lock company owner amd his family. The guy is definitely a toxic bully, but he was indeed violently harrassed by filing a lawsuit

I think you're confusing who filed the lawsuit here. That was also the lock company owner as well (Lee/Proven).

While I agree that flash mob harassment from the Internet is a terrible dynamic, filing baseless lawsuits has been a longstanding way to predictably summon them. So if the table stakes of launching or defending these type of aggressive attacks have gone from a significant amount of money for attorneys, to a significant amount of money for attorneys plus public relations and/or having a large audience, does that really actually change much? Either way most people simply don't file lawsuits, even if they've been actually wronged, due to the extreme personal stress.

The straightforward way of diminishing mob justice is to make people believe the system provides justice. If we lived in a society where McNally would predictably win the lawsuit [0], and be predictably compensated for his expenses/time/emotionalDistress for being on the receiving end of this baseless SLAPP, then there would be much less mob outrage to begin with. As it stands, everyone can imagine themselves receiving these types of legal shakedown letters, but having much less power to push back.

[0] it sounds like this particular suit was slapped down pretty hard and "quick" by the standards of the legal system, but there are many similar cases that don't go this way
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-27 15:56:15+00:00
> We've seen the stories about increased sediment in local residents' water supply after a new datacenter moves in next door, but I'd like to share an example from my own city.

If you're talking about the New York Times Article "Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door" described in https://andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake , that NYT article was so misleading I'd call it basically a deliberate lie. The article was about a household that used well water and started having more problems with sediment in their well water when Meta started constructing a data center within a mile of them (that was not operating yet because it wasn't done being built yet). It's unclear if the construction of the data center was actually related to their sediment issues, and even if it was, the fact that it was a data center being constructed as opposed to some other type of large building was irrelevant.
by numbsafari | 2025-10-27 15:56:31+00:00
The direction of political winds shift over time. An organization like the PSF cannot assume an open-ended liability like that. DEI today, but what tomorrow? As we have seen, political leadership in the US has shown itself to be unreliable, pernicious, and vindictive.

US leadership is undermined by the politicization of these grants. That is something that members of this community, largely a US-based, VC-oriented audience, should be deeply, deeply troubled by.
by takluyver | 2025-10-27 15:56:40+00:00
I would imagine it is much easier to enforce as part of a grant agreement that organisations have signed. Especially if the law is either not really a law (yet), or it might be invalidated by a court on free speech grounds. There's probably a reason someone wrote it into the grant agreement, and that they're declaring DEI stands for something other than the familiar Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
by twostraws | 2025-10-27 15:57:20+00:00
The native version does quite a few extra things, including bringing all the solving tools inside the app (as opposed to using external tools like CyberChef, Boxentriq, Dcode, etc), but also has more compute-intensive operations like creating spectrograms of audio and image manipulation, a much bigger implementation of the Linux terminal, and (safely!) destructive things too – you get local copies of files or databases to work with, so you can delete them, modify them, etc, freely, rather than being restricted to working with shared resources.
by Centigonal | 2025-10-27 15:57:24+00:00
"Frunk" and the Telo's "monster tunnel" are whimsy. Playing DOOM on a parked Tesla is whimsy. Shipping a feature that implies the car will drive unsafely or illegally in an automated fashion -- from an automaker that has a history (see below) of shipping similar driver assist features with unsafe behavior and misleading or overly bombastic marketing -- that is irresponsibility, not whimsy. If it weren't directly governing driving behavior or if it didn't come from a company that keeps doing this, then maybe I'd give them the benefit of the doubt.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-cars-traffic-la...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-fsd-nhtsa-investigation-t...

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-risky-deaths-cra...

https://futurism.com/tesla-change-name-full-self-driving-chi...

https://www.jalopnik.com/1878905/ncap-downgrades-tesla-safet...

https://www.theverge.com/news/692639/tesla-robotaxi-mistake-...
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-27 15:57:30+00:00
That makes zero sense. Radiation is not a component of water; it is literally photons[0]. In the nanosecond after you fill the glass, all the radiation in it has left the volume.

I'd drink it. It's just extremely pure water, with a nuclear flashlight at the bottom of the pool - which no one could see, even if they had gamma-ray glasses on[1], because the water attenuates it so much.

[0] Or ions of hydrogen or helium, in the case of alpha and beta radiation.

[1] Which it turns out were way less cool than the Sea Monkeys(tm).
by moi2388 | 2025-10-27 15:57:40+00:00
Good. I want walled gardens. I want to be sure all code is audited and vetted.

I don’t like that governments are forcing companies to open their environments up to random code, I wish they instead put legislation in place about transparent vetting processes, and allowing different kinds of apps.

In general I think software engineers get away with things no real engineering job gets away with, and it baffles me.
Ask HN: Would this sorting puzzle game be fun, challenging, and/or educational?
by amichail | 2025-10-27 15:57:45+00:00
Here's the idea: given a randomly generated partial order, turn it into a total order using as few pairwise comparisons as possible.

To make a comparison, select two nodes and the partial order will update itself based on which node is larger.

Think of it like "sorting" when you don’t know all the relationships yet.

Note that the distinct numbers being sorted would be hidden. That is, all the nodes in the partial order would look the same.

Would this sorting game be fun, challenging, and/or educational?
by Zababa | 2025-10-27 15:57:56+00:00
> Amazon’s data centres were projected to use 7.7 billion gallons of water a year by 2030, according to the leaked strategy memo, which was circulated within the company in 2022.

From https://www.usgs.gov/water-science-school/science/total-wate...:

> Water use in the United States in 2015 was estimated to be about 322 billion gallons per day (Bgal/d), which was 9 percent less than in 2010.

It doesn't seem to be very much water at all.
by airstrike | 2025-10-27 15:58:17+00:00
The issue with the documentation is a lack of guides or tutorials, but the crate is 100% documented and I think the examples cover 100% of what 90% of people need. Looking at other apps helps too.

And if you're on Discord, the community is 10/10. I'm there all the time and always helping newcomers, and so are many others.
by n4r9 | 2025-10-27 15:58:23+00:00
But... the section on deterrance pretty much aligns with what I just said above: https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=114

Namely that it is unlikely to factor into people's decision-making process - and when it does, the extent of the punishment makes little difference. Slightly disappointed to wade through slides of challenging handwriting to find that it wasn't saying much more :/
by DarkmSparks | 2025-10-27 15:58:51+00:00
Sure, I am referring there to what started with

https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio...

And finished with the resignation of the stanford prof engaged in it, and all the evidence that they cause cognitive imparment being retracted.

E.g.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04533
by gvurrdon | 2025-10-27 15:58:57+00:00
Recently, I was referred by my family physician to a healthcare provider. That provider required a mobile phone number for registration. I emailed them to complain about this and their reply was that if I did not have a mobile I should contact the referring medical practice to find an alternative means of treatment. I did, and their response was that I should take it up with the provider. But this is, of course, just one anecdote. I would also be interested in seeing more information.
by recursive | 2025-10-27 15:59:10+00:00
It sounds like you're headed towards XHTML. The rise and fall of XHTML is well documented and you can binge the whole thing if you're so inclined.

But my summarization is that the reason it doesn't work is that strict document specs are too strict for humans. And at a time when there was legitimate browser competition, the one that made a "best effort" to render invalid content was the winner.
by sponaugle | 2025-10-27 15:59:11+00:00
"But as the company grew he had to deal with more of the business side of the things. He still set the broad outline of priorities. But he gave me mostly free reign of determining how and I would just give him a brief high level of overview of my decisions. He did what a CTO was supposed to to do - grew the capabilities of his team."

That is a good summary of the progression of a successful CTO. The capabilities of the team is a summation operations, not a selection operation.
by ben_w | 2025-10-27 15:59:49+00:00
The difference in life expectancy between the USA (where beef is heavily consumed) and India (where you may get lynched on suspicion of eating it) is 78.39 - 72 = 6.39 years at birth.

Most people attribute this difference to the GDP/capita ($89,600 vs. $12,132 PPP) or the number of doctors per capita (36.082 vs. 7.265 per 10k), not the diet.
by ajross | 2025-10-27 15:59:53+00:00
> I would also point out that we don't actually know why he was detained

That's always the way it works with secret police. The idea of due process of law and norm following is (1) expressly designed to provide assurances in cases like this and (2) being deliberately degraded and evaded by ICE and DHS at all levels.

Trying to make the story actually about bland journalism criticism is doing their jobs for them. To borrow your framing: your critique is technically accurate, but...
by ifyoubuildit | 2025-10-27 16:00:37+00:00
> It's a temporal recommendation, not against.

Same difference. "There is no downside to any vaccine" means at any time, if you see a label that says "vaccine", it's never a bad idea for you to take it.

I'm not claiming any expertise here, but some examples:

The jannsen covid shot: you're likely to come in contact with covid, this one is only recommended for folks who can't do mRNA for whatever reason. (The same concept applies to any vaccine that isn't considered the best of its kind)

HPV: not just blanket recommended to everyone, yet you are very likely to come into contact with HPV.

Chatgpt comes up with plenty more examples, but the concept is simple. Just because something is called a vaccine (or medicine in general) does not make it some kinda special power up that everyone should be maximizing their exposure to.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-27 16:00:59+00:00
Many of the news-reporting institutions who report negative things about US government enforcement of immigration law have an ideological problem with the existence of laws restricting immigration to first-world countries like the US; and one of the ways this manifests itself is by referring to people who are negatively affected by US government enforcement of immigration law as "immigrants", and deliberately avoiding specifying whether those people are illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, permanent residents, etc.
by pie_flavor | 2025-10-27 16:01:10+00:00
GPLv4 could be the MIT license. GPLv3-or-later is a statement of arbitrary trust towards the FSF. Corporations serious about licensure, like SixtyFPS, aren't fans of that. (I don't think I've ever seen GPLv3-or-later in the wild from non-GNU/FSF software.)
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-10-27 16:01:11+00:00
Twitter is a concrete demonstration of this. There were so many prognostications [0] that Twitter would imminently implode after downsizing from ~8k to ~1.5k employees following Musk's takeover, and when these claims never came to pass, it was a wake-up call to the rest of the industry [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34617964

[1] https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/elon-musk-fired-80-p...
by hydrogen7800 | 2025-10-27 16:01:14+00:00
This sounds a bit sensationalized, and I'm not sure if it's the source from which I originally learned of the issue, but:

>In a series of secret meetings in 1994, the Resnicks seized control of California’s public water supply. Now they’ve built a business empire by selling it back to working people.

https://perfectunion.us/how-this-billionaire-couple-stole-ca...
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-27 16:01:27+00:00
Two (of the many) mind-blowing discoveries of the 80's:

1. there was a disk notcher (the Nibbler?) that would DOUBLE the capacity of a 5 1/4 floppy!

2. you could just use a regular paper hole punch and a few select clips to do the same thing!

All my C64 floppies had faint parallel pencil lines across the top to line up the slots and what looked like mouse-nawed holes on one side.
by notanastronaut | 2025-10-27 16:01:30+00:00
They can cite their sources which can be double checked by the user and verified. I guess at that point the user would just tell you what they found and use the same sources and people would be way less hostile than they currently are.

Whether the hatred is justified or not, the openness of said hostility just breeds users who'll hide their usage and deliver the same content, just repackaged enough in attempt to throw off the BS smell. And now you, the user, might be two paragraphs into something that may be truthful enough to fool you unless you're also an expert on the topic. I'd rather know up front what their source was and weigh the data with that in mind.

Otherwise we're now all going to have to assume everything we read is AI generated and suspect everyone else is going to look at our own content under such a microscope. Maybe that's a positive though.
Show HN: spoilerjs – Reddit-style spoilers with particle animations
by sh4jid | 2025-10-27 16:01:41+00:00
Hello HN!

I just published my first npm library as a small way to give back to the open source community.

I built `spoilerjs`, a lightweight web component that lets you hide text with an animated spoiler effect. Think Reddit spoilers, but with more flair! It works with plain HTML, React, Vue, or Svelte, and you can customize attributes like particle density, velocity, and scale. The effect is totally inspired by the Telegram app!

Demo: https://spoilerjs.sh4jid.me NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/spoilerjs GitHub: https://github.com/shajidhasan/spoilerjs

I'm sure there are probably some bugs and rough edges, but I'd love to hear your feedback!

Thanks!
Ask HN: Is the stock market in a bubble? What would make it pop?
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-27 16:01:51+00:00
I’ve been seeing the market climb to ever higher highs, even as everything else like gold is at an all time high. I’ve also seen people talk about the kind of earnings companies eventually need to justify the AI boom. It feels very bubbly but the market seems to be optimistic.

Is this a bubble? What sort of things might trigger it to pop - would disappointing earnings be enough or would it take larger events? It seems like in the short term demand for AI may keep revenues growing but does that mean the bubble may only be popped in a few years?
by milch | 2025-10-27 16:01:59+00:00
I don't see how less puzzles is an improvement - you always had the option to only do 12 puzzles and skip ones you don't find interesting. I guess just from a statistical perspective, you're probably more likely to find 12 puzzles you find interesting out of 25 vs. find all 12 puzzles interesting.

There's also nothing preventing you from doing more of them, or finishing in January... in fact, I know some people that space them out over the entire year, only doing a handful each time when they have lots of spare time.
by haskellshill | 2025-10-27 16:02:26+00:00
The merits and drawbacks of XHTML has already been discussed elsewhere in the thread and I am well aware of it.

> And at a time when there was legitimate browser competition, the one that made a "best effort" to render invalid content was the winner.

Yes, my point is that there is no reason to still write "invalid" code just because it's supported for backwards compatibility reasons. It sounds like you ignored 90% of my comment, or perhaps you replied to the wrong guy?
by mikestorrent | 2025-10-27 16:02:29+00:00
ostensibly - and I'm in your camp, so this is just devilish advocacy - the idea is that you will be wondering, "who said X to me the other day?" or "what was that article I saw about Y?" and you'll be able to just ask one unified search interface instead of searching in 5 different messengers or poring through your browser history.

I don't know that I need that. Certainly not at the privacy cost involved.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-10-27 16:02:44+00:00
Which is of course why all recent western proejcts have equal outcomes to FV3.

And the ones recently started, like the Darlington SMR also have near equal costs before they have even started building.

I love the blind belief. Just another aboslutely bonkers handout of tax money and it will be solved!

Which is why the EPR2 project is getting more delayed and more costly by every update released.

Existing nuclear power might be cost neutral. The problem is building new.