MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abaymado | 2025-10-02 17:28:06+00:00
To add to this, I published an app on the Vision Pro App Store within the first few weeks of the Vision Pro release. A simple 3D garden that grows simultaneously as you complete your Pomodoro goals.

After the original release, I wanted to expand my app by adding more animals and plants. However, when I searched for my app in the App Store, it kept defaulting to iPhone/iPad apps. I don't have proof to support this, but it felt like it was done intentionally by Apple, and many developers were facing the same issue and started complaining, which eventually led Apple to decide to have the native store be the default search.

I have been shadow banned by EA before for selling an item at the auction below the average price, and this reminded me of that. I lost all interest in making apps for the Vision Pro or helping grow the ecosystem if Apple was going to be this greedy.
by quantummagic | 2025-10-02 17:28:15+00:00
> Students - domestic or international - deserve a campus where they can explore new ideas without fear of reprisal at home or abroad.

That's a bit naive in today's world. Not every person who identifies as a student is there with the best of intentions, or without ulterior motives, some even being directed by foreign governments. To make them off limits from scrutiny, is to leave your door wide open, and susceptible to abuse and manipulation by enemies.
by apwell23 | 2025-10-02 17:28:34+00:00
One of my coworkers made up a totally bogus story about me to show her "management potential" about how she managed a situation with uncooperative team member on a project.

ofcourse our middle manager knew that it was bs but she was the one mentoring this person so she ran with it.

i didnt even know about this when all of a sudden i saw it my review with hr.

i considered this person my friend and we even hung out with each others families over holidays.

i was totally shaken by the whole situation.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-10-02 17:28:55+00:00
> Onebag travel is unquestionably the best way to travel. Traveling without luggage removes just about every pain point associated with flying, such as checking bags, overhead compartments, bag fees, waiting in line, and needing to drop off luggage before an adventure. Just stroll into the airport an hour before your flight, and walk off your plane directly to your destination.

This is absolutely true, especially when traveling solo.
by mook | 2025-10-02 17:29:17+00:00
The old dialogs used to be extensible, in that getting random software like mouse drivers to just add a new tab to the mouse control panel was the way to do things. The new one is, as far as I know, not that. So there's a chance that they left random bits alone because they're afraid to break things.

Or that's merely the justification to push back against the designers…
by hluska | 2025-10-02 17:29:35+00:00
I’m not sure that blaming tech support for not understanding context is the best approach here. The other sides of that context, which are understandable from their point of view, is that you were charged with some serious crimes. There’s a large delta between the charges and the conviction, but you’ve got some scary words written about you online. Secondarily, GitHub has policy so whereas you’re coming at it from a position of being correct, they’re in a position where they have to break policy. That’s a big risk.

Your best bet would likely be legal. US Federal law imposes some strict rules on lawyers for identity verification to combat money laundering so attorneys have a legally recognized toolkit to verify identity. Having a third party who works for you in the mix could help. Though again, it would involve breaking their policy so this would be a decision made several layers above Zendesk access.

Otherwise, I think this is doing precisely what 2FA is meant to do. It’s not okay for you and you’ve clearly lost a lot because of this, but with the current threat environment, GitHub has to be very careful especially with 2FA. From their point of view, there likely isn’t that big of a gap between your interactions and interactions with people who are trying to take over accounts. A lawyer may not work, but it sure changes that equation.
by ivell | 2025-10-02 17:29:45+00:00
Unfortunately, many autistic people also get misunderstood to be irresponsible and lazy. They are also unable to understand other person's feelings and are thought to lack empathy, even though it is just that they are unable to recognize social cues.

So with just this information it is hard to say if your friend is indeed autistic or not. It would need a more professional diagnosis to say either way.
by rurp | 2025-10-02 17:29:51+00:00
Has a tech company ever taken 10s or 100s of billions of dollars from investors and not tried to a optimize revenue at the expense of users? Maybe it's happened but I literally can't think of a single one.

Given that the people and companies funding the current AI hype so heavily overlap with the same people who created the current crop of unpleasant money printing machines I have zero faith this time will be different.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 17:30:20+00:00
> GOP does not do anything you mentioned

The GOP shut down the government in the name of repealing the ACA. Texas’s governor took immigration--a federal prerogative--into his own hands [1].

They stopped when the courts told them to. I’m not suggesting Democrats ignore the courts. But push them, like the GOP has.

> detaining ICE agents and not sending withheld federal taxes to Washington - this will happen only if the Democrat states would separate from the Union

Not at all. The point would be to trigger court cases and gum up the works. Not to permanently detain or freeze funds.

[1] https://gov.texas.gov/operationlonestar
by barbazoo | 2025-10-02 17:30:23+00:00
As someone that grew up in Europe it was clear to me and as far as I could tell every one around me that the economic, cultural, etc integration after the cold war was to develop a rules based relationship with Russia to reduce the risk of another war.

To a lesser extend but similar to how European countries tightly integrated with each other on all levels making an armed conflict less likely than otherwise.
by alganet | 2025-10-02 17:30:26+00:00
Do you believe AI is at the core of these security analyzers? If so, why the personal story blogpost? You can just explain me in technical terms why is that so.

Claiming to work for Google does not work as an authority card for me, you still have to deliver a solid argument.

Look, AI is great for many things, but to me these products sounds like chocolate that is actually just 1% real chocolate. Delicious, but 99% not chocolate.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-02 17:30:41+00:00
Think for at least 5 seconds before typing.

Humanity already is integrating these into systems where they cannot be easily terminated. Think infrastructure and military systems.

And in this case we're talking about a system that's smarter than you. It will become part of vital systems like electricity and distribution where when deciding to shut it off you are making a trade off of how much your economy and the people in it you're going to kill.

And that's not even taking future miniaturization where we could end up with ASI on small/portable devices.
by armchairhacker | 2025-10-02 17:30:55+00:00
From the DSM summary:

> To meet diagnostic criteria for ASD according to DSM-5, a child must have persistent deficits in each of three areas of social communication and interaction (see A.1. through A.3. below) plus at least two of four types of restricted, repetitive behaviors (see B.1. through B.4. below).

Example (A.1):

> Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity, ranging, for example, from abnormal social approach and failure of normal back-and-forth conversation; to reduced sharing of interests, emotions, or affect; to failure to initiate or respond to social interactions

The medical diagnostic criteria, despite using technical language, are still vague: "deficits in..." has a wide interpretation. Furthermore, "at least two of the four" permits two people diagnosed with autism to have different symptoms: one child may only have limited interests and insistence on sameness, while another may only have "stereotyped" motor movements and hypersensitivity (and the specific interests, "stereotyped" behaviors, and hypersensitive stimuli can vary).
by thehappypm | 2025-10-02 17:31:09+00:00
Harvard sees a potential link, hell it’s the name of the paper: “Using acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase children’s autism and ADHD risk ”.

I think that it might be a real thing is because nobody really knows how acetaminophen even works. All the theories involve influencing the brain‘s chemistry. Who knows, maybe influencing a fetus’s brain chemistry can be bad.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/using-acetaminophen-during-pre...
by array_key_first | 2025-10-02 17:31:27+00:00
Facebook doesn't exist in a free market. It IS a market. And an unfree one ruled by a dictatorship that you can't vote on.

That's what platforms are. They're markets. Its not like making a couch or something.

That's why those other apps are literally worthless.

It doesn't matter if the other apps are super amazing and they walk your dog and suck your dick and make you live forever. Literally does not matter.

The app, itself, does not matter. Which is why Facebook is allowed to be as shit as humanly possible.

What matters is what the app proxies, which is a market. Those other apps will always fail, forever, because they can't compete with facebooks market because they're not even allowed into that market.
by CPLX | 2025-10-02 17:31:47+00:00
You could initiate some kind of legal action to access your data. You'd need a lawyer.

I think it's likely that you wouldn't have legal grounds to force them to give you your data but it's an approach that would most certainly get their attention at a higher level than anything you're able to do from a customer service perspective.

You'd have to have some legal argument as to why they could be obligated to produce the records under subpoena but the standards for that could be quite low.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-10-02 17:31:52+00:00
Okay, but that doesn't mean we should throw up our hands and say "guess chronological sorting is too much to ask for." I flip between the homepage of HN, the /newest section, and the /active section, and frequently find interesting content at the top of each that is missing from (or buried in) the other views. Similar with facebook. The default feed to find bigger posts that might be a few days or a week old, and the recent feed for what's happening right now.

How does it hurt you by requiring social media to offer a working chronological sort?

I think even casual users understand the appeal of having both options and wouldn't want to lose it, assuming they discover it.

I agree with the judge. We are not obligated to suffer the degeneracy of the hyper-optimized algorithm with no alternative.

Just because you have never experienced the utility of working chronological sort doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
by ysnp | 2025-10-02 17:32:56+00:00
Can anyone comment on where this puts Signal now in relation to iMessage with PQ3[1]? As an aside, can anyone comment on earlier (fast/rushed/sound?) attempts at quantum-resistant encrypted messaging in Cyph[2] and Simplex[3] in comparison?

[1] https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/ [2] https://www.cyph.com/castle [3] https://simplex.chat/blog/20240314-simplex-chat-v5-6-quantum...
by Naomarik | 2025-10-02 17:33:00+00:00
I was about a week from launching a react native app on iOS/Android, so decided to go through all the administrative motions to get things going in case there were any delays in getting that moving.

Google Developer account cost me $25. A few days go by and I get an e-mail asking for identification documents and a bill that shows that I live at the place I'm at. I send my passport and utility bill with my name on it, those get rejected with absolutely 0 reason the next day.

Zero explanation. I raised about 8 different support tickets and DMed several people on twitter and linkedin that worked for google and emailed a few higher up people.

At one point I got some communication from a completely different department that wasn't accessible to the support lines publicly available, and it looked like they were going to help me.

But in the end nothing.

This was a copy/paste response I saw for every support ticket:

Thanks for contacting the Google Play team.

As much as I'd like to help, I’m not able to provide any more information. Unfortunately, we are unable to verify the documents you provided and are unable to grant your appeal.

If you are located in the EU, you may have additional redress options. Learn more about those potential options in the EU Out-of-Court Dispute Resolution Help Center. Routing ID: ZLFS

Thanks again for your understanding.

My final response after a week of relentless effort:

I'll concede in understanding that:

No one has actually looked at my documents

No one wants to give me a reason why you won't help me

No one on your entire support team is capable of performing basic customer support tasks.

Thanks for treating me like some untouchable beggar when you were the ones that stole $25 from me.

Apple/iOS cost me $100 and my developer account was verified within two days with zero hassle.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-02 17:33:34+00:00
The GOP doesn't do those things. They instead just not vote for Democrat things, and because they always have almost 50% of every house all the time, all they need is one Democrat defector to kill anything democrats want to do, which is easy to find when people like Manchin are "Democrats".

When McConnell refused to vote to appoint new supreme court justices, he was exercising the power given to him by the constitution.

You want Democrats to wield power? You have to give it to them first.

Our state's governor is a Democrat, and shes trying to sue the admin and fight it, but a lot of the shit Trump is doing is popular, so that might just result in yet another state going red.

Democrats haven't really held power in the US since Reagan blasted the entire party out of the water by doing exactly what Trump does but cleaner. Jimmy Carter lost the election in a landslide so bad it nearly killed the party.

Americans don't vote for Democrats or empathetic policy. They had to adopt neoliberalist bullshit and "hard on crime" crap to get elected with Clinton, and despite running the country very well and doing good things for 8 years, the public still chose to vote for a literal dynasty who then got us into criminal wars killing brown people for made up things, set trillions of dollars on fire for no gain, and set the worlds energy economy on fire, and america reelected him after that was clear.

>Governors should be arresting ICE agents illegally detaining their citizens.

So you are out there citizens arresting ICE agents right? Oh you aren't? Because you don't want to be shot and die?

Remember, that democrat state senator was murdered by someone with clear political motivations and who dressed like a cop. She didn't even get the flag at half staff for a second, let alone the days that Charlie got.
by hermannj314 | 2025-10-02 17:33:49+00:00
Household ownership of cars hit 50% by 1930 but there was no federal seatbelt mandate unitl 1968 or regulation of intoxicated driving until the 1980s.

Don't hold your breath waiting on the US government to give a shit about death and destruction of its people. Let the industry discover the tech and capitalist forces dictate safety, around 2060 we can start having serious conversations about drone safety.

To any of the aspiring Ralph Nader's of the drone industry out there, thank you for your service in advance.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-02 17:33:56+00:00
This is what I was thinking, too. For so long, the default mode of operating a software company has been:

"Developer time is so expensive, we need to throw everything under the bus to make developers fast."

The kinds of things often thrown under the bus: Optimizations, runtime speed, memory footprint, disk image size, security, bug fixing, code cleanliness / lint, and so on. The result is crappy software written fast. Now, imagine some hypothetical AI (that we don't have yet) that makes developer time spent on the project trivial.

Optimistically: There might be time for some of these important software activities.

Pessimistically: Companies will continue to throw these things under the bus and just shit out crappy software even faster.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-02 17:34:04+00:00
You really think this worries Sam Altman?

I actually agree that mitigation of AI risk should be studied and pursued. That's different from thinking the AIs will take over.

Most of the worries I've heard from Geoff (and admittedly it was in 1-2 interviews) are related to how AI will impact the economic workforce, and the change may be very disruptive as to completely change our way of living, and that we are not prepared for it. That's much milder than "AI taking over humanity". And it's definitely not any of the following:

> Due to alignment difficulty and orthogonality, it will pursue dangerous convergent subgoals.

> These will give the AI a decisive strategic advantage, making it uncontainable and resulting in catastrophe.

The economic damage will not be due to AI, but due to the humans controlling it (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc), and due to capitalism and bad actors.

Even in the interview I heard from Geoff, he admitted that the probability he assigns to his fears coming true is entirely subjective. He said (paraphrased): "I know it's not 0%, and it's not 100%. It's somewhere in between. The number I picked is just how I feel about it."

Finally, that statement was in 2023. It's been 2 years. While in many ways AI has become much better, it has mostly only become better in the same ways. I wonder how worried those people are now.

To be clear, I'm not saying I think AI won't be a significant change, and it may well make things much worse. But "AI taking over humans"? Not seeing it from the current progress.
by tptacek | 2025-10-02 17:34:04+00:00
The Economist charts are a rhetorical tool designed to highlight a point they're making (I think the points are valid and the charts are good and interesting).

The spreadsheet I'm "advocating" is less like that, and more like the tables in a 10K filing. It's simply an accounting of where US health dollars go, and where the money comes from.

I'm not saying that spreadsheet rebuts any claim this article makes (though it might). I'm saying it's a remarkably simple and comprehensive piece of data to fit onto a single screen, and when we discuss health care economics, it's extraordinarily helpful to have that data available.
by freehorse | 2025-10-02 17:34:21+00:00
To do that properly, one needs some kind of control, which is hard to do with one person. It should be doable with proper effort, but far from trivial, because it is not enough to measure what you actually did in one condition, you have to compare it with sth. And then there can be a lot of noise for n=1: when you use LLMs, maybe you happen to have to solve harder tasks. So you need at least to do it over quite a lot of time, or make sure the difficulty of tasks is similar. If you have a group of people, you can put them into groups instead and thus not care as much for these parameters, because you can assume that when you average this "noise" will cancel out.
by SpecialistK | 2025-10-02 17:35:04+00:00
My theory is that Microsoft offers LTSC IoT in part as a bone to throw the vocal complainants (read: people who use HN) - and that the terrible name is to dissuade standard users.

I just reinstalled my own system with a combination of LTSC and Linux (currently looking at a riced Hyprland on CachyOS) with the understanding that there will be occasional annoyances (but still less so than consumer W11)
by bikelang | 2025-10-02 17:35:05+00:00
There are debloat scripts for Win11 that are pretty effective. I use this one: https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

Only issue is that Windows will periodically re-bloat itself - so you have to re-run it after more or less every quarterly windows update.

The only thing remaining that I want to remove but cannot get rid of is edge. Removing edge is only available in the EU for $ome in$ane rea$on. You might be able to get an EU ISO for installation? Unclear to me but I haven’t dug too deeply.
by culturestate | 2025-10-02 17:35:08+00:00
> the amount you're paying for the subscription is only a fraction of what they can get for your data.

This doesn’t clarify it at all for me because this model already works without the bother of subscriptions. They’re generating the data either way, regardless of whether the customer is paying $140 per year or $1,400 up front.

I think the real reason is probably closer to “we want to be able to add recurring subscription revenue to our 10-K” than it is to “we want a better pretext under which to mine consumer data.”
by elvisloops | 2025-10-02 17:35:46+00:00
I think this used to be true. Now one problem is that a Signal message goes through this whole forward secrecy protocol, but the receiving device has some probability of uploading it to the cloud with a static key that never changes.

You don't have to enable the Signal backups feature, but you have no way of knowing whether the recipient of your messages has. One person in a group chat with that enabled will undo all of the forward secrecy you're describing.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-02 17:35:49+00:00
The Trump admin has already demonstrated that court cases don't effectively gum up the works. Courts are eventually effective, but turns out you can ship a lot of people to a lot of places in the time it takes for "eventually".

Court cases did not stop DOGE from destroying significant parts of our government.

How the heck are Democrats supposed to stop us from bombing Venezuela? Trump is the rightfully elected commander in chief
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-02 17:35:51+00:00
"Boring" AI safety is not a major risk. It's basically an extension of "humans can be reckless and incompetent" - a threat faced by human civilization since before recorded history. There's a very limited amount of people a Therac 25 can kill. Even Bhopal disaster has only caused this much harm.

Now, an AI that can play the game of human politics and always win, the way a skilled human can always win against the dumb AI bots in Civilization V? There is no upper bound on how bad that can go.
by dev1ycan | 2025-10-02 17:35:59+00:00
Can we as a society either fund QT/GTK or make a good alternative to it that is as solid as Winform was in terms of GUI principles for Linux?

No matter what Linux distro it is, the core issue with it are QT/GTK, they will never give a user peace of mind like winforms did, a winforms program just feels "good" to use, sort of like the feeling you get from using a website done primarily in HTML (Like hardware news or old reddit)...

A lot of the charm that old windows versions had is exactly based on the GUI framework of the operating system, distros are nice and all but they cannot change fundamentally what is wrong with the user interface of QT/GTK.

Anyways until people figure out what is wrong (which is by the way, also wrong with UWP and WinUI 3... Windows 11 did semi recently get ClassicShell support, I recommend you just moving the taskbar to the side and changing the classicshell logo back to the windows 7/vista button... almost makes you feel like you're using a trash operating system.
by PhotonHunter | 2025-10-02 17:36:19+00:00
For drugmakers, we treat research and development as an asset that is depreciated over 15 years, which is more or less the lifetime of their patents.

This is not a good assumption. It's a super complicated subject, but what really matters is market exclusivity and I think most industry people would use 8–12 years as a realistic range for small molecule market exclusivity.†

I'm unsure how this revised assumption would alter the conclusions.

†one reference of many in support: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10242760/