MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-10-05 08:09:22+00:00
There is no reason why they have to provide a fair market to all users. The purpose of the product is entertainment, not financial risk.

There are providers who specialise in providing action to sharps which then sets the prices that retail-facing customers use. If you want to make money, just bet with them. But limiting users is a way to provide a sustainable product. Again, it is an entertainment product, it is not a financial investment.

Also, the quoted text is wrong...gambling companies do not employ lots of mathematicians, I am not sure why people think this...I am not even 100% sure why people think mathematicians are useful, most of the stats used are very basic. But retail providers don't, the prices you see for the biggest lines are provided by third parties, when you make a bet retail providers have no idea what price is being offered to you at that time. The only exception is parlays which are often priced in-house, these lines are very beatable but, again, retail providers limit because the purpose of the product is entertainment. Providers that do business with syndicates do not have lines on parlays because they are so beatable. The protection comes from all users being limited in the amount they can bet on parlays.

A side note is that even in financial markets which are completely open, market makers avoid informed flow. If there was no uninformed flow, there would be no market makers. There has to be an ecosystem. Retail providers exist to buy advertising to win retail users every weekend, to do that they have to run their business in a certain way. There can't be a situation where they just lose money non-stop to fund someone else's business.
by logifail | 2025-10-05 08:09:39+00:00
> I take that to mean that if your server isn't availble to receive the mail at the time it is first offered, it won't be retried later.

Umm, RFC 5321, which describes queuing and retry? SMTP is designed to be very forgiving of transient network issues.

> That wasn't the case (for most mail) when I gave up on self hosting 10 years ago, but it's plausible

Plausible? To those of us who run our own mailservers, the OP's statement is an extraordinary claim.
by monkeyelite | 2025-10-05 08:09:55+00:00
> spotting what comes next and knowing how to solve it faster

This is such a strange mindset to me. Part of staff engineer is learning you don't need to solve tomorrow's problems. You solve it with the constraints you understand and leave room for expansion if needed.

Why do we have the opposite belief organizationally? And why as a manager would you want your top workers to be speculating about things you might want rather than achieving at the tasks you gave them?

(This is a genuine question.)
by Yiin | 2025-10-05 08:10:55+00:00
my mom sees it as a nice internet bloke that helps her with writing emails. She once asked why it can't change background of her image from white to red if it can generate all that amazing art, and was genuinely disappointed that she can't get it to understand what she wants. You have skewed view on public perception on llms - they don't think about it, they just use it.
Show HN: Dropstone – A Self-Learning AI IDE That Improves with Your Workflow
by DarenWatson | 2025-10-05 08:11:25+00:00
I’ve been trying out Dropstone, a new IDE with a self-learning AI that actually adapts to how you code. Unlike Cursor or Claude, it runs locally, has no token limits, and gets better the more you use it. What impressed me is that it learns from your edits and naming patterns while keeping everything private on your own system. It even explains its reasoning for every suggestion and has quick undo and fallback options that keep you in flow. It genuinely feels like coding with an assistant that remembers you.
by jaccola | 2025-10-05 08:11:34+00:00
What on earth is he talking about? Firstly, I find Amazon fine for goods that are hard to be faked (washing powder, books, etc...).

But the real shocker to me is:

> That means shopping anywhere other than Amazon has become substantially more inconvenient.

and

> We’re all still stuck to the platform, but we get less and less value out of it.

I've simply started buying all of my electronics, and other expensive goods from the manufacturer (D2C) or a reputable retailer in the space. My groceries I can order through my supermarket or one of the grocery focused platforms. They all offer simple free or cheap shipping at a convenient time. I think, to some extent, Amazon has helped this push for better/cheaper shipping.

> Break up with Amazon and delete your apps, and you will lose all the media you’ve ever bought from the platform.

Yes... but if you simply stop paying them you will keep them all? I have never bought a movie through Prime but I have some audio books which all work fine despite me no longer paying Audible.

All in all it seems like this guy has come up with some hypothesis of their master plan but the reality is that switching costs are low and Amazon doesn't hold a monopoly in any tangible way.
by OJFord | 2025-10-05 08:12:24+00:00
In my experience in the UK, Amazon is better than consumer protection laws, and miles better than other vendors. They won't question or require lots of information etc. to support things in however many years of warranty, or even outside of it.

Not to mention the standard is 30 day returns, more than double the legally mandated 14 for distance selling.

I don't understand why you were even talking to support - if it was clearly defective within half an hour (much less than 30 days) you could have just created a return yourself without talking to anybody?
by pfexec | 2025-10-05 08:13:34+00:00
Well they must give the stateside CSRs a different script because whenever I win the lottery and get an American on the phone it's a night and day difference. Notably they seem capable of solving complex problems without lying or smoke and mirrors.

An actual example, I recently had an issue that while straightforward and not that difficult to solve, was likely "off script". After being handed off between 4 different chat agents, and subsequent phone calls with two different Indians (who lied and made promises that weren't kept), my problem was not solved. At my wits end (and nearly 2.5 hours of my time wasted) I called back one more time. Inexplicably, I got a lady with a Southern accent. She solved my problem in under 10 minutes (and that included the approval she had to get from her supervisor).
by keiferski | 2025-10-05 08:15:56+00:00
The vast, vast majority of people that have gambling problems aren't making rational financial decisions like this. They're doing a habitual activity that is reinforced by bad actors trying to extract as much money from them as possible.

This is especially noticeable with "traditional" offline gambling and lotteries - lower income people play them habitually from a kind of learned helplessness, not as a rational financial strategy.

https://fortune.com/2024/04/04/lottery-tickets-poor-rich-inc...
by xomodo | 2025-10-05 08:16:08+00:00
Thx. The only problem I have with litestream binary is ~31Mb !?

This why I prefer to take backup stuff in a side container, eg: https://github.com/atrakic/gin-sqlite/blob/main/compose.yml

As a side note, you might consider revisiting your dockerfiles and skip litestream build steps, eg. in your final stage just add line like this:

COPY --from=litestream/litestream /usr/local/bin/litestream /bin/litestream
by jaccola | 2025-10-05 08:17:15+00:00
This article just gets worse and worse!

> you can’t stop enshittification by “voting with your wallet” (those votes are always won by those with the thickest wallets, and that’s the billionaires who made money by enshittifying everything)

Er... Amazon can't run with only the patronage of billionaires? What is he imagining, Elon Musk just buys a billion dollars a day from his mate Jeff? Obviously if the platform gets worse, customers will start switching (en masse) to the 85-90% of global ecommerce that Amazon doesn't control.
by AppleBananaPie | 2025-10-05 08:18:13+00:00
It's amazing we don't have a good answer for this yet.

For me it happened on its own and I realized I was fine with who I was flaws and all. Yeah I get disappointed in myself or whatever but it was just getting comfortable in my own skin over the years that seemed to mostly fix stuff like this.

Also a lot of observing the anxiety and then after it subsided realizing I don't have enough time to worry about everyone else like I was assuming people worry about me.

Sorry for the rambling it's late. Anyway wish you best of luck out there :)
by deepdarkforest | 2025-10-05 08:18:19+00:00
Context editing is interesting because most agents work on the assumption that KV cache is the most important thing to optimise and are very hesitant to remove parts of the context during work. It also sometimes introduces hallucinations, because parts of the context are with the assumption that eg tool results are there, but theyre not. Example Manus [0]. Eg, read file A, make changes on A. Then prompt on some more changes. If you now remove the "read file A" tool results, not only you break the cache, but in my own agent implementations(on gpt 5 at least) can hallucinate now since my prompt etc all naturally point to the content of the tool still beeing there.

Plus, the model got trained and RLed with a continuous context, except if they now tune it with messing with the context as well.

https://manus.im/blog/Context-Engineering-for-AI-Agents-Less...
by xg15 | 2025-10-05 08:18:24+00:00
Agreeing with the other sibling comments. I think in part it was following the same vision that the current Israeli government had been following already before Oct. 7 - they had annexation of the West Bank listed as one of the official goals of their coalition since they were elected.

Another part stemmed from the extreme dehumanization of Palestinians that was already established in Israeli society long before (and to a lesser extent also in other western countries). The overton window had already been shifted so far that this kind of response was seen as mostly normal.

I found the standard justifications of "eh, war is always cruel" and "when their kids grow up, they will just become the next generation of terrorists" pretty telling.
by samus | 2025-10-05 08:19:01+00:00
You need these settings when you drive your application hard into circumstances where manual memory allocation arguably starts making sense again. Like humongous heaps, lots of big, unwieldy objects, or tight latency (or tail latency) requirements. But unless you're using things like Rust or Swift, the price of memory management is the need to investigate segmentation faults. I'd prefer to spend developer time on feature development and benchmarking instead.
by b112 | 2025-10-05 08:19:01+00:00
In Canada .ca site at least, it's getting harder and harder to even find how to get help.

To get to chat, there are maybe 20 clicks to do. It's a series of menus and the wrong answer at any point leads you back to the prior purchases page.

If you finally get to 'chat', it's a terrible AI which never helps. If you respond incorrectly, AI closes the chat or gives dead end answers.

Only after all of this, do you finally have the opportunity to chat to a person. Often this person has a poor command of the english language too.

I just call now. They've literally made it so calling is 1000x easier.

Amazon is just hilariously, horribly managed these days.
by dmazin | 2025-10-05 08:19:16+00:00
It's important to note that this page is almost 10 years old.

I do find myself self-censoring in 2025, but it's for a far more boring reason than surveillance capitalism. It's because leaders on the far right literally said people should snitch on each other and dox each other.

Much as I hate to say it, I'm sure people on the right have felt the same way for at least a decade.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-05 08:19:18+00:00
Webassembly taking off on the browser is wishful thinking.

There are a couple unicorns like Figma and that is it.

Performance is much better option with WebGPU compute, and not everyone hates JavaScript.

Whereas on the server it is basically a bunch of companies trying to replicate application servers, been there done that.
How to automatically turn any .sh into a dry-run to see what it'll do
by EGreg | 2025-10-05 08:19:25+00:00
<?php $script = file('link_plugins.sh'); foreach ($script as $line) { $trim = trim($line); if ($trim === '' || $trim[0] === '#') { echo $line; // comments or blank } else { echo "echo '+ $trim'\n"; } } ?> php dryrun.php > dryrun.sh bash dryrun.sh

Is there a better way?
by necovek | 2025-10-05 08:19:51+00:00
I am outside US and have used them to ship internationally because they are one of the rare retailers who will ship delivery duty paid, avoiding local UPS/FedEx/DHL offices charging 30-60 USD just to do customs processing (local ~30% customs fees still come on top of combined shipping and item prices). Their international shipping charges have gone bonkers recently though too (what used to be like $70 for an ultraportable laptop is now like $200+). Thus I am bound to Amazon.de more but there's a smaller selection.

I also temporarily sign up for Prime when I visit US (usually for a week), but recently, unless I order on Sunday of my arrival and deliver to one of their lockers, "2-day shipping" or even extra paid same-day-shipping won't arrive by Friday to my hotel (last few experiences in Boston, MA).

Due to only "delivered by Amazon" products having delivery-duty-paid option, I avoid some of the risk of new Amazon, but I need to be extra careful when shopping while in the US.
by roenxi | 2025-10-05 08:19:59+00:00
I think it is worth saying that those two impacts were smaller and the same size as 2024 YR4 (which is ~60m diameter) respectively.

It is interesting to look at impact structures [0]. Note the highly suspicious correlation of impacts and places where well paid geologists like to live; there are probably a lot of impacts in the last few millennia elsewhere in the world where people just discarded the cultural memory because the stories were too fantastic, or nobody noticed the very large splash in the pacific. A lot as in I don't think we know about the majority of the impacts in any time frame.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_craters_on_Eart...
by komali2 | 2025-10-05 08:20:12+00:00
Is the self censoring of big boy and girl worlds like "murder," "suicide," "execution," "Nazi," and "genocide" on videos and posts related to this? It's been driving me crazy. Do not go quietly into that night and whatnot... Do not comply in advance.

The idea of changing my speech so my words look nice next to a Toyota advertisement fills me with disgust and anger.
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-05 08:20:14+00:00
This is commentary about the news, not a repost of the news, so it’s literally not a dupe.

Daring Fireball is a publicly-known blog of an (in)famous Apple fan and critic, so their weighing-in on this news is relevant to the wider internet and thus to HN, despite what you may say or believe about it being or not being a dupe to HN’s reckoning.
by qurashee | 2025-10-05 08:21:04+00:00
I recently had a similar experience with Amazon. I bought a pair of AirPods but didn’t like them, so I returned them the next day. Amazon confirmed they’d received the package, but when the estimated refund date passed, I got a message saying they needed more information.

When I contacted customer service, they told me I had to send them a copy of my ID to process the refund. I was really frustrated; I’ve had this account for over 20 years and never had any issues before. I spoke with several representatives, but they all gave me the same response, and a few were even rude and aggressive, something I’d never experienced with Amazon before.

Since I didn’t want to share my ID, I decided to go through my credit card provider (Visa) instead and filed a claim. Visa refunded my money, but shortly after, I got an email from Amazon asking why I’d raised a Section 75 claim (the UK’s credit card protection scheme) and informing me that my account would be closed for fraudulent activity.

I replied with proof that they had received my return and never issued a refund. That was the last I ever heard from them, and the last time I bought anything from Amazon.
by hvb2 | 2025-10-05 08:21:35+00:00
If the chances of getting caught are small, and the chances of being convicted are even smaller, should the punishment be harsher to have the same deterrent?

You do understand how the petty theft criminal represented by a public defender is at a disadvantage to the white collar criminal with an army of lawyers paid by the company?

"We should just catch more of them" is like saying we should just solve our energy problem by making nuclear fusion work. Sure, everyone agrees with that but that's just wishful thinking
by onli | 2025-10-05 08:21:54+00:00
.de promised to call me, never called. Split an order in three, used a bank account I had already removed from the system, then made me pay a fee three times when the money naturally could not be retrieved. One item in the order was a fake, when I returned it they claimed I kept it - thankfully I still had the receipt that I returned something, together with some stern words that was enough to end that.

Never buy from Amazon, especially not .de. Germany has a bunch of alternative online shops that are better.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-10-05 08:22:22+00:00
Gambling has always been a part of football. You mentioned the football pools, is this not gambling? Horse racing, not going to mention that?

Conflating fixed odds machines with sports gambling is deliberately disingenuous, it is like comparing a nice glass of water with super skunk weed. Sports gambling is known to have less harm because it is not possible to control many aspects of the experience, unlike with fixed odds machine where the experience is controlled to appeal to addicts. Also, these machines are very heavily regulated, there are categories that separate what places can have them, how the mechanics operate, etc. We have regulation (you seem to be unaware that regulations have changed to limit how much you can wager, you cannot wager £50 in 5 minutes), the problem is purely one of choice.

Online gambling has grown because it is more accessible, and that has meant that a higher proportion of the users are people who didn't want go into a seedy shop and can now put their acca on at the weekend and that is it.

Football pools was also about extracting money from people. The people who ran the pools did not do so because they had an innate love for the human spirit, they did it because people wanted to gamble.

Also, banning advertising would not be a big issue for gambling companies. In the UK, it would be a massive leveller because Paddy Power is able to generate as much revenue as everyone else whilst spending significantly less on advertising. However, the issue is that offshore places would still advertise in the UK and it would significantly incentivize revenue generation from FBOT. If you no longer have big retail participation then you have to rely on addicts to fund the company. This is the first-order effects, past this point it will be different and who knows. But there is an ecosystem that advertising is part of that generates massive revenue, provides significant employment, funds addiction treatment (until 2022, there were no gambling addiction centres funded by the government, it was all funded by providers), and is a generally low-harm product that people enjoy (gambling has been a core part of British culture for decades, what has changed recently is the makeup of British society not gambling).
by timschmidt | 2025-10-05 08:22:44+00:00
Another strawman. No one in this thread said Kyber was known to be weaker. Just that elliptic curve cryptography is well tested, better understood as a consequence of being used in production longer, and that removing it opens up transmissions made without both to attacks on the less widely used algorithm which would not otherwise be successful.

It really seems like you're trying not to hear what's been said.
by daymanstep | 2025-10-05 08:23:02+00:00
Strategy (2) doesn't tell you how to come up with the initial prices, and bookies can potentially lose a significant amount from giving "bad" initial prices. If an individual is winning a lot of money from a bookie repeatedly because of these bad initial prices, then it is a sign that they might have a better model than the bookie, and so it is in the bookie's interest to ban them, since sports betting is a zero-sum game: every dollar you win from a bookie is a dollar that the bookie loses.
by humanfromearth9 | 2025-10-05 08:23:20+00:00
One of the best software design books I've read is "Domain Modelling Made Functional", from Scott Wlaschin. It's about F#, but it remains a good read for any software programmer, whatever your language. And it's easily understandable, you can almost read it like a novel, without focusing too much. Though what may need some brains is applying the functional concepts of this book with your favourite language...
by measurablefunc | 2025-10-05 08:23:32+00:00
I've already explained it in several places. The burden of proof is on those drawing the equivalence to provide actual evidence for why they believe carbon & silicon are interchangeable & why substrate independence is a valid assumption. I have studied this problem for much longer than many people commenting on this issue & I am telling you that your position is metaphysically incoherent.
by librasteve | 2025-10-05 08:23:38+00:00
in https://raku.org,

you can define a recursive regex rule

regex element { '<' (<[\w\-]>+) '>' # Opening tag [ <-[<>]>+ | ~ ]* # Use tilde for recursion '</' $0 '>' # Closing tag }

https://docs.raku.org/language/regexes#Tilde_for_nesting_str...

or you could go with a Grammar

grammar MiniXML { token TOP { ^ <element> $ } rule element { '<' <tag> '>' <content>* '</' $<tag> '>' } token tag { \w+ } token content { <-[<>]>+ } }

(or just use a library module like XML::Class or XML::Tiny)
by DecentShoes | 2025-10-05 08:24:37+00:00
Not just confusing, but inconvenient! If you buy a 10th or 11th gen iPad plus the Apple Pencil that works with it, you have no way to charge that Pencil at all.

It can't charge from the iPad. It can't charge from USB-C. It can't charge from a Lightning charger.

You have to go out and buy a special charger that only charges the Apple Pencil and literally nothing else. It's a completely proprietary connection, a pointlessly inverted version of the Lightning connector, that never could and never will charge anything other than your stylus.

Despite Apple having the option of allowing it to charge from a Lightning cable, or Usb-C, or not charge at all and simply get power from the device light Samsung's S-Pen, Apple chose to opt for None Of The Above and allow the Apple Pencil to charge exclusively from the specific Apple Pencil charger.

Why?

Because screw you. Because Apple makes money when you buy that 20$ charging adapter and doesn't care that you have to carry that adapter with you everywhere now.

They could have made it charge from the iPad charger.

They could have made it charge from the iPhone charger.

They could have made it charge by attaching to the iPad.

They could have powered it wirelessly like Samsung and never need charging at all.

But no. They chose the worst of all worlds, the most painful, expensive, and inconvenient possible option, and allowed it to only charge from a specific "First generation Apple Pencil Charger" that isn't included with the iPad or even the Pencil itself.

That's right, you go out today and buy a brand new iPad and a brand new Apple Pencil, and you can't use the Pencil. At all. You have to also but the separate Apple Pencil Charging Adapter. Because Fuck You. We're Apple and Fuck You.